ho.le.lah denotes madness considered or found among human conduct and the human heart in Ecclesiastes.

The attested uses present ho.le.lah as madness: something examined alongside wisdom and folly, and something described as filling the human heart in life.

1. Madness in inquiry and human life · dominant

   In Ecclesiastes 1:17 and Ecclesiastes 2:12, the feminine plural noun occurs in statements of turning or applying the heart to know wisdom, madness, and folly. Ecclesiastes 7:25 similarly places it in a search to know folly's wickedness and madness's foolishness, while Ecclesiastes 9:3 locates it in the heart of human beings during life; the APB renders these clauses with “madness.”

   Ecclesiastes 1:17Ecclesiastes 2:12Ecclesiastes 7:25Ecclesiastes 9:3

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB uses “madness” in each supplied verse, whether the clause concerns inquiry with wisdom and folly or the condition of the human heart. This repetition confirms the verse-level presentation rather than a precise lexical mapping.