- Original: יאל - Transliteration: Ya'al - Phonetic: yaw-al' - Definition: 1. to be foolish, become fools, act foolishly, show wicked folly a. (Niphal) 1. to show wicked folly 2. to become fools - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 830 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; properly to be slack that is (figuratively) to be foolish: - dote be (become do) foolish (-ly). Total KJV Occurrences: 4 • dote, 1 Jeremiah 50:36 • foolish, 1 Jeremiah 5:4 • foolishly, 1 Numbers 12:11 • fools, 1 Isaiah 19:13