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ἀνόητος

Strong’s: G453

Associated OET lemmas: ἀνόητος

Form 1

Part of speech: adjc.

Inflections: ἀνόητος; -ον

Constructions: ἀνόητος; ἀ-; νοέω

Sense 1: foolish, stupid, without understanding

Semantic entry: 32.50

Semantic domains: Understand

Subdomains: Lack of Capacity for Understanding

Definition: pertaining to unwillingness to use one’s mental faculties in order to understand

Notes: As in the case of ἀσύνετος (32.49: ἀσύνετος), the meaning of ἀνόητος is that people presumably would not use their capacity for understanding and as a result, thought and behaved foolishly. ἀνόητος does not imply the mental state of being an idiot or imbecile.

LUK 24:25: RV LUK 24:25 · LV LUK 24:25 · Read together LUK 24:25

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OET-RV LUK 24:25

25 “Oh, you’re so foolish,” he told them, “and your hearts are so reluctant to believe everything that the prophets wrote.

OET-LV LUK 24:25

25 And he said to them:
Oh foolish and slow the in _heart, which to _be _believing in all things that the prophets spoke.

ROM 1:14: RV ROM 1:14 · LV ROM 1:14 · Read together ROM 1:14

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OET-RV ROM 1:14

14 Whether it’s Hellains (Greeks) or other foreigners, wise people or foolish, I have an obligation,

OET-LV ROM 1:14

14 To _Hellaʸns both and to _foreigners, to_the_wise both and the_foolish, a_debtor I _am.

All 6 recorded passages for this sense

LUK: RV LUK 24:25 · LV LUK 24:25 · Read together LUK 24:25

ROM: RV ROM 1:14 · LV ROM 1:14 · Read together ROM 1:14

GAL: RV GAL 3:1 · RV GAL 3:3 · LV GAL 3:1 · LV GAL 3:3 · Read together GAL 3:1 · Read together GAL 3:3

TI1: RV TI1 6:9 · LV TI1 6:9 · Read together TI1 6:9

TIT: RV TIT 3:3 · LV TIT 3:3 · Read together TIT 3:3