asofos

Strong’sG781

unskilled, unwise, foolish

stem asof-once in the New Testament1 of 26 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.

ἄ-σοφος, -ον,

[in LXX: Pr 9:8 א2 A*;]

unwise, foolish: Eph 5:15.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G781 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidas'-of-os

unwise

Fromfrom G1 (as a negative particle) and G4680;

King Jamesfool.

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

ἄσοφος, ον,
unwise, foolish, NT+6th c.BC+: comparative, Refs 4th c.AD+. adverb -φωςRefs 1st 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.

unwise1×

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	asofos	asofas	asofem	asofois1×ἄσοφοι	asofais	asofeim
object accusative	asofon	asofan		asofoin	asofain
direct address vocative	asofor	asofar		asofoir	asofair
of, belonging to genitive	asofou	asofau	asofeu	asofoiu	asofaiu	asofeiu
to, for dative	asofo	asofa	asofe	asofoi	asofai	asofei

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

asofstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

asof 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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

asofois“unwise”subjectnominative plural1×

Ephesians 5:15… oun akribōs pōs peripatavō, mē hōs asofois alla hōs sofois,… to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,