Words the Bible translates as foolish
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 8 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- aphrōnἄφρωνfoolish, senseless: lacking the sound sense that comes from reckoning with God, so that a person's thinking and living both go wrong
- mōrosμωρόςfoolish: lacking the good sense that leads to right action
- evilאֱוִילthe perverse fool: a person whose settled disposition rejects wisdom, correction, and the fear of God, not someone of low intelligence
- petiפֶּתִיa person whose mind and loyalties are still open and unformed: naive and easily led, yet teachable, the raw material wisdom hopes to shape.
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- naive openness itself, treated as a quality: the untaught, gullible state the simple person needs to leave behind.
- navalנָבָלthe sacrilegious scoundrel: one whose conduct ruptures the covenantal and communal order, not a person of low intelligence
- anoētosἀνόητοςunthinking, senseless: failing to use the mind one has, so that what should be plain is never put together
- sakhalסָכָלfool: the person who simply has no sense, whose emptiness of judgment shows up in what he does and how much he talks
- eviliאֱוִלִיfoolishnot studied yet
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