Words the Bible translates as senseless
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 5 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
- asunetosἀσύνετοςsenselessnot studied yet
- anoētosἀνόητοςunthinking, senseless: failing to use the mind one has, so that what should be plain is never put together
- ḥaserחָסֵרlacking: short of something needed, in want of it, or deprived of it
- sakhalסָכָלfool: the person who simply has no sense, whose emptiness of judgment shows up in what he does and how much he talks
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