ἈΝΟΙΑ, ἀνοια
ANOIA, anoia
Sounds Like: ah-NOY-ah
Translations: folly, foolishness, senselessness, madness, a folly
From the root: ἈΝΟΙΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a lack of understanding, sense, or reason. It describes a state of foolishness or mental unsoundness, often implying a moral or spiritual deficiency rather than just intellectual ignorance. It can be used to describe actions or attitudes that are irrational or absurd.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G0453 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:29
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 1:39
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- 2 Timothy — 3:9
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΝΟΙΑ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΝΟΙΑΝ — folly, foolishness, madness, a folly, a foolishness, a madness
- ἈΝΟΙΑΣ — of folly, of foolishness, of senselessness
- ΤΗΣἈΝΟΙΑΣ — (of) folly, (of) foolishness, (of) madness, (of) senselessness
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