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Nave Topical Bible
• Fool
Scofield Reference Index
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Thompson Chain Reference
• Fools
Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Fools
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Fools
Dictionaries
American Tract Society
• Fool
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Fool, Folly
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Fool, Foolishness, Folly
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Fool
CARM Theological Dictionary
• Fool
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Fool, Foolishness, and Folly
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Fool
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Fool (2)
• Fool
King James Dictionary
• Fool
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Scripture, Fool in
• Rich Fool, Parable of the
• Parable of the Rich Fool
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Fool
People's Bible Dictionary
• Fool
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Fool, Foolish, Foolishly, Foolishness
• Fool
Wilson's Bible Types
• Fool
Webster Dictionary
• Fooling
• Fooled
• Fool-Largesse
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Fool
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• April-Fools' Day
• Feast of Fools
• Fool
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Fool; Folly
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Fool
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• All-Fools-Day
• Feast of Fools
• Fool
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Fools, Feast of
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Feast of Fools
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Folly and Fool
Lexicons
• ܠܶܠܳܐ
• ܪܶܥܝܳܢܳܐ
• ܪܰܩܰܐ
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• ἀνόητος , ἀνόνητος
• ἄσοφος
• ἄφρων
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• אֱוִיל
• בֵּן בְּנו, , לַבֵּן
• הָלַל הָלַל, הָלַל, , הַלְלויָּהּ
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The fool of Scripture is not an idiot, but an absurd person; not one who does not reason at all, but one who reasons wrong; also any one whose conduct is not regulated by the dictates of reason and religion. Foolishness, therefore, is not a private condition, but a condition of wrong action in the intellectual or sentient being, or in both (; ). In the Proverbs, however, 'foolishness' appears to be sometimes used for lack of understanding, although more generally for perverseness of will.