Strong’s H191 · Hebrew

אֱוִיל
ʼĕvîyl
ev-eel'

Definition

(figuratively) silly

Etymology

from an unused root (meaning to be perverse);

How the KJV renders it

  • fool(-ish) (man)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.