noun · feminine
mōrias
Strong’sG3472
folly, absurdity
stem mōri-5 times in the New Testament3 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.
** μωρία, -ας, ἡ
(< μωρός), [in LXX: Si 20:31*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3472 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmo-ree'-ah
silliness, i.e. absurdity
Fromfrom G3474;
King Jamesfoolishness.
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
Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, (μῶρος) folly, Refs 5th c.BC+; μωρίην ἐπιφέρειν τισί to impute folly to them, Refs 5th c.BC+; μωρίαν ὀφλισκάνειν to be charged with it, Refs 5th c.BC+; μωρίᾳ φιλονικεῖν foolishly, Refs; τῆς μ. what folly! Refs 5th c.BC+; of illicit love, 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 | mōrias3×μωρία | mōriais |
| object accusative | mōrian1×μωρίαν | mōriain |
| direct address vocative | mōriar | mōriair |
| of, belonging to genitive | mōriau1×μωρίας | mōriaiu |
| to, for dative | mōria | mōriai |
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
mōria 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.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
mōrias“foolishness”subjectnominative singular3×
1 Corinthians 1:18… tos tou staurou toi men apolorōntoi mōrias atō, toi de sōzorōntoi ni dunamias …… the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but …
1 Corinthians 2:14… dechotō teim teu pneumeu tou theou, mōrias gar auto atō, kai ouk dunotō …… Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand …
1 Corinthians 3:19tas gar sofias tou kosmou houtou mōrias para to theo atō; grafotē gar; …… the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is …
mōrian“foolishness”objectaccusative singular1×
1 Corinthians 1:23… staurorēnton, Ioudaioi men skandalem ethnei de mōrian,… a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
mōriau“foolishness”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
1 Corinthians 1:21… theon, eudokata tos theos dia tau mōriau teu kērugmeu sōzara toin pisteuarōntoin.… Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save …