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Strong G878ἄφρων

foolish

Transliteration
aphrōn
Pronunciation
af'-rone
Morphology
Greek Adjective

Definition

From G1 (as a negative particle) and G5424; properly mindless that is stupid (by implication) ignorant (specifically) egotistic (practically) rash or (morally) unbelieving: - fool (-ish) unwise.

Detailed definition

ἄφρων, -ον genitive -ονος
(φρήν), [in LXX for כְּסִיל, נָבָל, etc.;]
without reason, senseless, foolish, expressing "want of mental sanity and sobriety, a reckless and inconsiderate habit of mind" (Hort; cf. MM, see word): Luk.11:40 12:20, Rom.2:20, 1Co.15:36, 2Co.11:16 12:6 12:11, 1Pe.2:15; opposite to φρόνιμος, 2Co.11:19; to συνιέντες, Eph.2:17.†
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In the Bible

Strong G878 appears in 10 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • fool7
  • foolish2
  • unwise1

First verses

  1. Luke 11:40
    Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
  2. Luke 12:20
    But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
  3. Romans 2:20
    An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
  4. 1 Corinthians 15:36
    Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
  5. 2 Corinthians 11:16
    I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
  6. 2 Corinthians 11:19
    For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
  7. 2 Corinthians 12:6
    For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
  8. 2 Corinthians 12:11
    I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
  9. Ephesians 5:17
    Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
  10. 1 Peter 2:15
    For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ἄφρων, ον,
genitive ονος, (φρήν) senseless, of statues, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.4.4)]:— and so, crazed, frantic, ἄφρονα κούρην[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.875, compare 761, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 377 (Lyric poetry))]; silly, foolish, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.220, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” [210], 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 941, etc.; φρένας ἄ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.104)]; τὸ ἄ., ={ἀφροσύνη}, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.105, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.55)]; τῶ φρονίμῳ τῆς γνώμης παύοντες τὸ ἄ. [τῆς ῥώμης] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Gorgias Rhetor et Sophista “fragment” 6; ἐξ ἄφρονος σώφρων γεγένηται 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.1.17)]: comparative -έστερος[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 392c)]: superlative -έστατος[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.5)]. adverb -νως senselessly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 766, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.1.19)]; opposed to νοῦν ἐχόντως, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.7)]: comparative -εστέρως[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 193c;)] -έστερον [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 7.224d.)]
2 ἄφρων, ={κώνειον}, Ps.-[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.78.)]