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μωρός

mōrós · G3474 · Greek · 12 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. unwise, foolish, fool

    Pertaining to being extremely unwise and foolish

    Examples

    Matthew 5:22 “But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be answerable to the court; and whoever says to his brother, ‘You good-for-nothing,’ shall be answerable to the supreme court; and whoever says, ‘You fool,’ shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.

    Matthew 7:26 “And everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

    Matthew 23:17 “You fools and blind men! Which is more important, the gold or the temple that sanctified the gold?

  2. foolish, nonsensical, to be nonsense

    (Derivative of μωρία ‘foolishness,’) Pertaining to thoughts devoid of understanding and therefore foolish

    Examples

    1 Corinthians 1:25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than mankind, and the weakness of God is stronger than mankind.

    1 Corinthians 1:27 but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong,

    2 Timothy 2:23 But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing that they produce quarrels.

How it’s used In 5 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

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

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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In the other Testament 1 word
נָבָל nâbâl · H5036 · fool, impious person, wanton fool
Greek μωρός and Hebrew נָבָל both denote moral and intellectual foolishness, with μωρός emphasizing dullness or stupidity (as if mentally shut up) and נָבָל emphasizing moral vileness and folly; the LXX regularly renders נָבָל with μωρός in contexts of moral condemnation.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Unwise, foolish, fool32.55
This sense denotes a person lacking sound judgment. Matthew 25:2 describes the parable of the ten virgins, “five of them were foolish, and five were prudent.”
Foolish, nonsensical, to be nonsense32.58
This sense denotes something judged to be absurd or without value. 1 Corinthians 1:27 states that God has chosen “the foolish things of the world to shame the wise.”
Word family 4 words

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

μωρόςmōrós · G3474μωρία mōría · G3472 · foolishness, nonsense, what is thought to be foolish · 5×μωραίνω 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 μωρά, μωρόν (on the accent cf. Winers Grammar, 52 (51); Chandler §§ 404, 405), foolish:…
μωρά, μωρόν (on the accent cf. Winers Grammar, 52 (51); Chandler §§ 404, 405), foolish: with τυφλός, Mt 23:17, Mt 23:19 (here T Tr WH text omit; L brackets μωροί); τό μωρόν τοῦ Θεοῦ, an act or appointment of God deemed foolish by men, 1 Cor 1:25; equivalent to without learning or erudition, 1 Cor 1:27; 1 Cor 3:18; 1 Cor 4:10; imprudent, without forethought or wisdom, Mt 7:26; Mt 23:17, Mt 23:19 (see above); Mt 25:2f, 8; equivalent to empty, useless, ζητήσεις, 2 Tim 2:23; Tit 3:9; in imitation of the Hebrew נָבָל (cf. Ps 13:1; Job 2:10) equivalent to impious, godless (because such a man neglects and despises what relates to salvation), Mt 5:22; (some take the word here as a Hebrew term (מורֶה, rebel) expressive of condemnation; cf. Num 20:10; Ps 68:8; but see the Syriac; Field, Otium Norv. pars iii. at the passage; Levy, Neuhebräisch. u. Chald. Wörterbuch under the word מורום). (the Sept. for נָבָל, Deut 32:6; Isa 32:5f; for כְּסִיל, Psalm 93:8. (Aeschylus, Sophocles, others.))

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Lack of Capacity for Understanding13 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

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