Word

μωρία

mōría · G3472 · Greek · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

foolishness, nonsense, what is thought to be foolish

The content of foolish thought

Examples
1 Corinthians 1:18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1:21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.
1 Corinthians 1:23 but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block, and to Gentiles foolishness,

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

κήρυγμαpreaching 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

λόγοςword, saying, message 1
σοφίαwisdom 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

διάthrough 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Foolishness, nonsense, what is thought to be foolish32.57: This sense denotes what is judged to be senseless or absurd. 1 Corinthians 1:18 states that the word of the cross “is foolishness to those who are perishing.”

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

μωρός mōrós · G3474 · unwise, foolish, fool · 12×μωρίαmōría · G3472μωραίνω mōraínō · G3471 · to cause to become nonsense, to become foolish, to act more foolishly · 4×μωρολογία mōrología · G3473 · foolish talk, stupid talk · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μωρίας, ἡ (μωρός), first in Herodotus 1, 146 (Sophocles, others). foolishness: 1 Cor…

μωρίας, ἡ (μωρός), first in Herodotus 1, 146 (Sophocles, others). foolishness: 1 Cor 1:18, 1 Cor 1:21, 1 Cor 1:23; 1 Cor 2:14; 1 Cor 3:19 (Sir. 20:31).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Lack of Capacity for Understanding5 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0