WHERE in the bible is the word fool used?

Answer 1

In the King James version

the word - fool - appears 66 times

1. 1 Sam 26:21 Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
2. 2 Sam 3:33 And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?
3. Psa 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
4. Psa 49:10 For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
5. Psa 53:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
6. Psa 92:6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
7. Pro 7:22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
8. Pro 10:8 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
9. Pro 10:10 He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
10. Pro 10:18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
11. Pro 10:23 It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
12. Pro 11:29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
13. Pro 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
14. Pro 13:16 Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.
15. Pro 14:16 A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
16. Pro 15:5 A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
17. Pro 17:7 Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
18. Pro 17:10 A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
19. Pro 17:12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
20. Pro 17:16 Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
21. Pro 17:21 He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
22. Pro 17:24 Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
23. Pro 17:28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
24. Pro 18:2 A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
25. Pro 19:1 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
26. Pro 19:10 Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
27. Pro 20:3 It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
28. Pro 23:9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
29. Pro 24:7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
30. Pro 26:1 As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
31. Pro 26:4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
32. Pro 26:5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
33. Pro 26:6 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
34. Pro 26:8 As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.
35. Pro 26:10 The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
36. Pro 26:11 As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
37. Pro 26:12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
38. Pro 27:22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
39. Pro 28:26 He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
40. Pro 29:11 A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.
41. Pro 29:20 Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
42. Pro 30:22 For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
43. Ecc 2:14 The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
44. Ecc 2:15 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
45. Ecc 2:16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? As the fool.
46. Ecc 2:19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? Yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
47. Ecc 4:5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
48. Ecc 6:8 For what hath the wise more than the fool? What hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
49. Ecc 7:6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
50. Ecc 10:3 Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.
51. Ecc 10:12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
52. Ecc 10:14 A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
53. Jer 17:11 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
54. Hos 9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
55. Mat 5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
56. Luk 12:20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
57. 1 Cor 3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
58. 1 Cor 15:36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
59. 2 Cor 11:16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
60. 2 Cor 11:23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
61. 2 Cor 12:6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
62. 2 Cor 12:11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

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the word - fool's - appears 7 times

the word - foolish - appears 52 times

the word - foolishly - appears 12 times

the word - foolishness - appears 20 times

the word - fools - appears 42 times