ἄνοια
ánoia · G454 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to lack understanding, absence of understanding
The state of being devoid of understanding
Examples2 Timothy 3:9 But they will not make further progress; for their foolishness will be obvious to all, just as was that also of Jannes and Jambres.
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extreme fury, great rage
A state of such extreme anger as to suggest an incapacity to use one’s mind
ExamplesLuke 6:11 But they themselves were filled with senseless rage, and began discussing together what they might do to Jesus.
How it’s used In 2 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
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἔκδηλοςeasily known 1
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
- אִוֶּלֶת ʼivveleth · H200 · folly
- אִוֶּלֶת (ʼivveleth, H200) אִוֶּלֶת denotes folly/foolishness as a settled character quality or pattern of behavior; ἄνοια (ánoia, G454) ἄνοια emphasizes the lack of understanding itself (stupidity) and extends by implication to the rage that can result from such mindlessness, representing a broader semantic field that encompasses both the cognitive deficit and its behavioral manifestation.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To lack understanding, absence of understanding32.51
- In 2 Timothy 3:9, Paul says of certain opponents that “their foolishness (ánoia) will be obvious to all, just as was that also of Jannes and Jambres,” describing a plain absence of sound understanding.
- Extreme fury, great rage88.183
- In Luke 6:11, after Jesus heals on the Sabbath, His opponents “were filled with senseless rage (anoías), and began discussing together what they might do to Jesus,” describing an intensity of anger that overwhelms reason.
Word family 25 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀνοίας, ἡ (ἄνους (i. e. Ανως without understanding)), want of understanding, folly: 2 Tim…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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