ἀσύνετος
asýnetos · G801 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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without understanding, senseless, foolish
Pertaining to a lack of capacity for insight and understanding
ExamplesRomans 1:21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasonings, and their senseless hearts were darkened.
Romans 1:31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unfeeling, and unmerciful;
Romans 10:19 But I say, surely Israel did not know, did they? First Moses says, “I WILL MAKE YOU JEALOUS WITH THOSE WHO ARE NOT A NATION, WITH A FOOLISH NATION I WILL ANGER YOU.”
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- σύyou 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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Near synonyms 3 words
- ἄφρων áphrōn · G878 · foolish, senseless, unwise
- Shares semantic field of lacking intelligence/understanding; ἄφρων emphasizes absence of mind/reason (φρήν) while ἀσύνετος emphasizes failure to put things together mentally (συνίημι), but both denote intellectual/moral deficiency
- μωρός mōrós · G3474 · unwise, foolish, fool
- Overlaps in meaning foolish/lacking understanding; μωρός often emphasizes dullness or stupidity while ἀσύνετος focuses on failure to comprehend, but both can describe intellectual and moral deficiency
- ἀνόητος anóētos · G453 · foolish, stupid, without understanding
- Very close synonym denoting lack of understanding; ἀνόητος emphasizes absence of νοῦς (mind/understanding) while ἀσύνετος emphasizes failure of comprehension, but functionally interchangeable in many contexts
In the other Testament 3 words
- נָבָל nâbâl · H5036 · fool, impious person, wanton fool
- Standard Hebrew term for one who is foolish or lacks understanding, particularly in moral/spiritual sense; direct translation equivalent for ἀσύνετος in LXX contexts describing lack of intelligence or wickedness
- כְּסִיל kᵉçîyl · H3684 · foolish, dull, constellation
- Common Hebrew term for one lacking in understanding or intelligence; frequently used as translation equivalent for Greek terms denoting lack of mental comprehension
- אֱוִיל ʼĕvîyl · H191 · foolish
- Hebrew term for one who is foolish or lacks sense, especially moral understanding; overlaps semantically with ἀσύνετος in denoting lack of intelligence
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Without understanding, senseless, foolish32.49
- Used of a lack of spiritual or moral comprehension, as of the disciples still lacking understanding in Matthew 15:16 and Mark 7:18, and of humanity's senseless hearts in Romans 1:21.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀσύνετον, unintelligent, without understanding: Mt 15:16; Mk 7:18; stupid: Rom 1:21; Rom…
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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