ἈΦΡΟΣΥΝΗΝ, ἀφροσυνην
APHROSYNĒN, aphrosynēn
Sounds Like: ah-fro-SOO-nane
Translations: folly, foolishness, senselessness, a folly, a foolishness, a senselessness
From the root: ἈΦΡΟΣΥΝΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a lack of good sense or judgment, often implying a state of being unwise or irrational. It describes actions or thoughts that are foolish or senseless. It is used here in the accusative case, indicating it is the direct object of a verb or the object of a preposition.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G0877 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
- 1 Enoch — 98:9
Clement of Rome
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 6 — 13:302
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 22:5
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Deuteronomy — 22:21
- Judges — 19:23
- 2 Samuel — 13:12
- Psalms — 68:6
- Proverbs — 5:23, 9:6, 26:4, 26:5, 27:22
- Ecclesiastes — 2:12, 2:13, 7:26
- Job — 1:22
- Sirach — 47:23
- Lamentations — 2:14
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΦΡΟΣΥΝΗ.
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.
- ἈΦΡΟΝΣΥΝΗΝ — folly, foolishness, senselessness, a folly, a foolishness, a senselessness
- ἈΦΡΟΣΥΝΑΙΣ — to follies, for follies, in follies, follies, folly, a folly
- ἈΦΡΟΣΥΝΗ — foolishness, folly, senselessness, a foolishness, a folly, a senselessness
- ἈΦΡΟΣΥΝΗΣ — (of) folly, (of) foolishness, (of) senselessness, folly, foolishness, senselessness, a folly, a foolishness
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