Occurrences
Kᵉçîyl occurs 70 times in 69 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Psalms (3), Proverbs (49), Ecclesiastes (17)
- Psalms 49:10 — For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool (כְּסִ֣יל) and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
- Psalms 92:6 — A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool (וּ֝כְסִ֗יל) understand this.
- Psalms 94:8 — Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools (וּ֝כְסִילִ֗ים), when will ye be wise?
- Proverbs 1:22 — How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools (וּ֝כְסִילִ֗ים) hate knowledge?
- Proverbs 1:32 — For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools (כְּסִילִ֣ים) shall destroy them.
- Proverbs 3:35 — The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools (וּ֝כְסִילִ֗ים).
- Proverbs 8:5 — O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools (וּ֝כְסִילִ֗ים), be ye of an understanding heart.
- Proverbs 10:1 — The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish (כְּ֝סִ֗יל) son is the heaviness of his mother.
- Proverbs 10:18 — He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool (כְסִֽיל).
- Proverbs 10:23 — It is as sport to a fool (לִ֭כְסִיל) to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
- Proverbs 12:23 — A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools (כְּ֝סִילִ֗ים) proclaimeth foolishness.
- Proverbs 13:16 — Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool (וּ֝כְסִ֗יל) layeth open his folly.
- Proverbs 13:19 — The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools (כְּ֝סִילִ֗ים) to depart from evil.
- Proverbs 13:20 — He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools (כְסִילִ֣ים) shall be destroyed.
- Proverbs 14:7 — Go from the presence of a foolish (כְּסִ֑יל) man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
- Proverbs 14:8 — The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools (כְּסִילִ֣ים) is deceit.
- Proverbs 14:16 — A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool (וּ֝כְסִ֗יל) rageth, and is confident.
- Proverbs 14:24 — The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools (כְּסִילִ֣ים) is folly.
- Proverbs 14:33 — Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools (כְּ֝סִילִ֗ים) is made known.
- Proverbs 15:2 — The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools (כְ֝סִילִ֗ים) poureth out foolishness.
- Proverbs 15:7 — The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish (כְּסִילִ֣ים) doeth not so.
- Proverbs 15:14 — The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools (כְ֝סִילִ֗ים) feedeth on foolishness.
- Proverbs 15:20 — A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish (וּכְסִ֥יל) man despiseth his mother.
- Proverbs 17:10 — A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool (כְּסִ֣יל).
- Proverbs 17:12 — Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool (כְּ֝סִ֗יל) in his folly.
- Proverbs 17:16 — Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool (כְּסִ֑יל) to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
- Proverbs 17:21 — He that begetteth a fool (כְּ֭סִיל) doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
- Proverbs 17:24 — Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool (כְ֝סִ֗יל) are in the ends of the earth.
- Proverbs 17:25 — A foolish (כְּסִ֑יל) son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
- Proverbs 18:2 — A fool (כְּ֭סִיל) hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
- Proverbs 18:6 — A fool’s (כְ֭סִיל) lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
- Proverbs 18:7 — A fool’s (כְ֭סִיל) mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
- Proverbs 19:1 — Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool (כְסִֽיל).
- Proverbs 19:10 — Delight is not seemly for a fool (לִכְסִ֣יל); much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
- Proverbs 19:13 — A foolish (כְּסִ֑יל) son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
- Proverbs 19:29 — Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools (כְּסִילִֽים).
- Proverbs 21:20 — There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish (וּכְסִ֖יל) man spendeth it up.
- Proverbs 23:9 — Speak not in the ears of a fool (כְ֭סִיל): for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
- Proverbs 26:1 — As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool (לִכְסִ֣יל).
- Proverbs 26:3 — A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s (כְּסִילִֽים) back.
- Proverbs 26:4 — Answer not a fool (כְּ֭סִיל) according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
- Proverbs 26:5 — Answer a fool (כְ֭סִיל) according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
- Proverbs 26:6 — He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool (כְּסִֽיל) cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
- Proverbs 26:7 — The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools (כְסִילִֽים).
- Proverbs 26:8 — As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool (לִכְסִ֣יל).
- Proverbs 26:9 — As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools (כְסִילִֽים).
- Proverbs 26:10 — The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool (כְּ֝סִ֗יל), and rewardeth transgressors.
- Proverbs 26:11 — As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool (כְּ֝סִ֗יל) returneth to his folly.
- Proverbs 26:12 — Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool (לִכְסִ֣יל) than of him.
- Proverbs 28:26 — He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool (כְסִ֑יל): but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.