Strong's Greek · G878
G878 áphrōn
ἄφρων
af'-rone
foolish
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áphrōn appears 11 times in Scripture, including Luke 11:40 and Romans 2:20. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
properly, mindless, i.e. stupid, (by implication) ignorant, (specially) egotistic, (practically) rash, or (morally) unbelieving
In the King James Version
fool(-ish), unwise
Derivation
Appears 11 times in Scripture
“You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside as well?”
“Even if I wanted to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me,”
“I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then receive me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.”
“You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.”
“I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.”
“Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.”
“an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—”
“For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorance of foolish men.”
“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
