ἀφροσύνη
aphrosýnē · G877 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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to be a fool, foolishness
The state of not using one’s capacity for understanding
ExamplesMark 7:22 deeds of greed, wickedness, deceit, indecent behavior, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.
2 Corinthians 11:1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness; but indeed you are bearing with me.
2 Corinthians 11:17 What I am saying, I am not saying as the Lord would, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
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
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μικρόςsmall, little 1
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀναιρέωto kill, to execute 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin 3
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 3 words
- נְבָלָה nᵉbâlâh · H5039 · foolishness, folly, foolish actions
- Hebrew נְבָלָה (nᵉbâlâh, H5039) denotes moral folly and vile conduct, directly equivalent to Greek ἀφροσύνη (aphrosýnē, G877) in its sense of reckless senselessness and moral foolishness, both terms emphasizing the ethical dimension of foolish behavior rather than mere intellectual deficiency.
- סִכְלוּת çiklûwth · H5531 · folly, foolishness
- סִכְלוּת (çiklûwth, H5531) denotes folly or foolishness in Hebrew Scripture; ἀφροσύνη (aphrosýnē, G877) renders this concept in LXX contexts as senselessness, egotism, or recklessness, preserving the core semantic field of foolish behavior or attitude across both languages.
- אִוֶּלֶת ʼivveleth · H200 · folly
- אִוֶּלֶת (ʼivveleth, H200) denotes moral and intellectual folly/foolishness as a characteristic state, while ἀφροσύνη (aphrosýnē, G877) emphasizes the senselessness or lack of prudence inherent in foolish behavior, with both terms overlapping substantially in their core semantic range of foolishness/folly as a condemnable trait.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To be a fool, foolishness32.53
- Used of foolish or reckless conduct, listed among the vices from within the heart in Mark 7:22 and repeatedly of Paul's own ironic 'foolish' boasting in 2 Corinthians 11:1, 11:17, and 11:21.
Word family 19 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀφροσύνης, ἡ (ἄφρων), foolishness, folly, senselessness: 2 Cor 11:1, 2 Cor 11:17, 2 Cor…
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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