noun · feminine
afrosunas
Strong’sG877
want of sense, foolishness
stem afrosun-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἀφροσύνη, -ης, ἡ
(< ἄφρων), [in LXX for אִוֶּלֶת, נְבָלָה, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G877 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidaf-ros-oo'-nay
senselessness, i.e. (euphemistically) egotism; (morally) recklessness
Fromfrom G878;
King Jamesfolly, foolishly(-ness).
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(ἄφρων) folly, thoughtlessness, frequently in plural, παῖδας καταπαυέμεν ἀφροσυνάωνRefs 8th c.BC+; opposed to σωφροσύνη and σοφία, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | afrosunas1×ἀφροσύνη | afrosunais |
| object accusative | afrosunan | afrosunain |
| direct address vocative | afrosunar | afrosunair |
| of, belonging to genitive | afrosunau1×ἀφροσύνης | afrosunaiu |
| to, for dative | afrosuna2×ἀφροσύνῃ | afrosunai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
afrosuna is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
afrosunas“foolishness”subjectnominative singular1×
Mark 7:22… dolos, aselgeias, ofthalmos ponēros, blasfēmias, huperēfanias, afrosunas;… deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
afrosunau“foolishness”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
2 Corinthians 11:1Ofelon anechove mu mikrem tinem afrosunau; alla kai anechovō mu.… up with a little of my foolishness, but you are already doing that.
afrosuna“fool”to, fordative singular2×
2 Corinthians 11:17… kata kurion lalamō, alla hōs en afrosuna, en houta ta hupostasia tau kauchēsiau.… the Lord would, but as a fool.
2 Corinthians 11:21… he de an tinos tolmateiō, en afrosuna legamō, tolmamō kamis.… weak for that! Speaking as a fool, however, I can match what anyone …