2001 Translation

MŌROI, mōroi

Sounds Like: MOH-roy

Translations: foolish, stupid, senseless, fools, foolish ones

From the root: ΜΩΡΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word describes someone who is foolish, stupid, or senseless. It is used to characterize a person lacking wisdom, intelligence, or good judgment. In a sentence, it would typically modify a noun or be used substantively to refer to 'foolish people' or 'fools'.

Inflection: Plural, Nominative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G3474 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 39:1

Codex Sinaiticus

• Psalms — 93:8
• Isaiah — 19:11
• Matthew — 23:17
• 1 Corinthians — 4:10

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Psalms — 93:8
• Isaiah — 19:11
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 13:48
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 13:48

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 8 — 7:4
• Parable 9 — 22:4

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 23:17
• 1 Corinthians — 4:10

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΩΡΟΣ.

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.

• ἘΜΜΩΡΟΥ — (of) foolish, (of) a fool, (of) a stupid person
• ΜΟΡΩΝ — of foolish ones, of fools, of stupid ones
• ΜΩΡΑ — foolish, stupid, silly, absurd
• ΜΩΡΑΙ — foolish, stupid, silly
• ΜΩΡΑΣ — foolish, stupid, senseless, silly, a fool, foolish ones
• ΜΩΡΕ — fool, foolish one, you fool, idiot
• ΜΩΡΟΝ — foolish, stupid, dull, a fool, a stupid person
• ΜΩΡΟΣ — foolish, stupid, a fool, a stupid person
• ΜΩΡΟΥ — of a fool, of foolish, of the foolish, of a simpleton
• ΜΩΡΩ — foolish, stupid, dull, a fool, of fools
• ΜΩΡΩΝ — (of) fools, (of) foolish ones
• ΜΩΡΩΣ — foolish, stupid, a fool, a foolish person

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