King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H1947
Transliteration: holelah
Phonetic Spelling: (ho-lay-law')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: madness
Meaning: madness
Word Summary
holelah: madness
Original Word: הוֹלֵלָהTransliteration: holelah
Phonetic Spelling: (ho-lay-law')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: madness
Meaning: madness
Strong's Concordance
madness Feminine active participle of halal; folly -- madness.
see HEBREW halal
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H1947. holelah
[הוֺלֵלָה] noun feminine madness (on text see below), only plural הוֺלֵלוֺת הֹלֵלוֺת,, and only Ecclesiastes: Ecclesiastes 1:17 and I set my heart (לִבִּי וָאֶתְּנָה) to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly (וְשִׂכְלוּת הֹלֵלוֺת), compare הוֺלֵלוֺת 2:12 ("" id.); ה וְהַסִּכְלוּת כֶּסֶל רֶשַׁע ׳וְלָדַעַת 7:25; i.e. to know folly to be madness; possibly read חוֺלֵלוּת, compare סִכְלוּת & following; the moral evil of it is specifically recognized in 9:3 ("" רָע).