ἈΝΟΙΑΣ, ἀνοιας
ANOIAS, anoias
Sounds Like: ah-NOY-ahs
Translations: of folly, of foolishness, of senselessness
From the root: ἈΝΟΙΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a state of foolishness, senselessness, or lack of understanding. It describes a mental or moral deficiency that leads to unwise actions or decisions. It is often used in a negative sense to denote a lack of good judgment or prudence.
Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Feminine
Strong’s number: G0453 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
Josephus' Against Apion
- Book One — 25:226
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
Pseudo Clement of Rome
- Clement’s Second Letter — 13:1
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Luke — 6:11
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.
- ἈΝΟΙΑ — folly, foolishness, senselessness, madness, a folly
- ἈΝΟΙΑΝ — folly, foolishness, madness, a folly, a foolishness, a madness
- ΤΗΣἈΝΟΙΑΣ — (of) folly, (of) foolishness, (of) madness, (of) senselessness
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