# הוֹלֵלָה (holelah)

Israeli respelling: ho-le-lah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1947. 4 Old Testament occurrences.

folly

King James renderings: madness.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/holelah-h1947

## Occurrences

- [Ecclesiastes 1:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/1/17) — And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
- [Ecclesiastes 2:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/12) — And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been…
- [Ecclesiastes 7:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/7/25) — I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of…
- [Ecclesiastes 9:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/9/3) — This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is f…