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הוֹלֵלָה

ho.le.lah

madness

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Strong’s H1947Noun, feminine4 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

madness4

In the text

Ecclesiastes 1:17הוֹלֵלוֹת
So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[הוֹלֵלָה] n.f. madness

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.