HEBREW WORDS

 

*KESIL

The main types of Hebrew fool were: kesil (...stupid and over

confident), an unintelligent person frequently involved in quarrels.

 

*EWIL A morally blind individual, but more intelligent than kesil.

 

*PETHI  Simpleton, perhaps with intellectual disability, who cannot plan for

 the future.

 

*HASAR-LEB (literally, empty-hearted), also of poor intelligence, who neglects

 himself and his property.

 

*BA-AR, a crude individual.

 

*NABAL, a brutal, cruel and depraved man, the word nabal also means wine skin

 suggesting a link with alcoholism.

 

*HOLEL, an irrational madman.

 

*LES, also translated as a scoffer, was a contemptuous narcissistic individual.

  (They cannot be corrected, they will take no correction at all, and they will abuse

  you verbally, and  shame you with a strong personal attack if you get in their

  face.)  This is the type of fool who you can beat their back with a 1000 strokes 

  and it will not affect them at all.

 

*BELIAL, (a scoundrel) an aggressive psychopath.

 

*ESSA ZARAH, the strange woman or loose woman, a loud, rebellious person,

 constantly on the go, has numerous affairs and shows both borderline and

 histrionic features.

From article by George Stein, quoted from the British Journal of Psychiatry