noun · feminine
anoias
Strong’sG454
folly, madness
stem anoi-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
ἄνοια, -ας, ἡ
(< ἄ-νοος, without understanding), [in LXX: Pr 14:8 22:15 (אִוֶּלֶת), Wi 15:18, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G454 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Epic dialect ἀνοίη Refs 6th c.BC+, ἡ:— the character of an ἄνοος, want of understanding, folly, ἀνοίη in folly, Refs 5th c.BC+; πολλῆ ἀνοια χρῆσθαι to be a great fool, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄνοιαν ὀφλισκάνειν to be thought a fool, Refs 5th c.BC+; but opposed to μανία, Refs: plural, follies, 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 | anoias1×ἄνοια | anoiais |
| object accusative | anoian | anoiain |
| direct address vocative | anoiar | anoiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | anoiau1×ἀνοίας | anoiaiu |
| to, for dative | anoia | anoiai |
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
anoia 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
anoias“folly”subjectnominative singular1×
2 Timothy 3:9… ouk prokoptali epi polloterem, tas gar anoias autoiu ekdēlas eti pantoi, hōs kai …… just like Jannes and Jambres, their folly will be plain to everyone.
anoiau“rage”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Luke 6:11autois de pimplēila anoiau, kai dialalale pros allēloin tinem an …… scribes and Pharisees were filled with rage and began to discuss with one …