μωρολογία
mōrología · G3473 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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foolish talk, stupid talk
Talk which is both foolish and stupid
ExamplesEphesians 5:4 and there must be no filthiness or foolish talk, or vulgar joking, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.
How it’s used In 1 role
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the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀνήκωto be fitting 1
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Near synonyms 2 words
- ματαιολογία mataiología · G3150 · idle discussions, meaningless talk
- ματαιολογία emphasizes empty or fruitless speech lacking content or purpose, while μωρολογία emphasizes foolish or silly speech lacking wisdom or sense; both denote types of worthless speech condemned in ethical discourse
- εὐτραπελία eutrapelía · G2160 · vulgar speech, indecent talk
- εὐτραπελία denotes vulgar or coarse jesting/wit (often in a buffoonery context), overlapping with μωρολογία's buffoonery sense; both appear together in Ephesians 5:4 as forms of inappropriate speech
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Foolish talk, stupid talk33.379
- This sense denotes empty, senseless speech. Ephesians 5:4 instructs that “there must be no filthiness or foolish talk, or vulgar joking, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.”
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μωρολογιας, ἡ (μωρολόγος), (stultiloquium, Plautus, Vulg.), foolish talking: Eph 5:4.…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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