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.† (AS)
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G878 — ἄφρων
aphrōn · foolish · Greek
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Luke 11:40 · ἄφρονες,You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?Luke 12:20 · ἄφρων,“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’Romans 2:20 · ἀφρόνων,a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.1 Corinthians 15:36 · ἄφρων,You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.2 Corinthians 11:16 · ἄφρονα · ἄφροναI say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.2 Corinthians 11:19 · ἀφρόνων,For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.2 Corinthians 12:6 · ἄφρων·For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me.2 Corinthians 12:11 · ἄφρωνI have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.Ephesians 5:17 · ἄφρονες,Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.1 Peter 2:15 · ἀφρόνωνFor this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: