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noun · feminine

mōrologias

Greekμωρολογία (mōrologia)

Strong’sG3473

foolish talking

stem mōrologi-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

foolish talk

What it means

* μωρολογία, -ας, ἡ,

foolish talking: Eph 5:4.†

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

Strong’s G3473 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidmo-rol-og-ee'-ah

silly talk, i.e. buffoonery

Fromfrom a compound of G3474 and G3004;

King Jamesfoolish talking.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativemōrologiasμωρολογίαmōrologiais
object accusativemōrologianmōrologiain
direct address vocativemōrologiarmōrologiair
of, belonging to genitivemōrologiaumōrologiaiu
to, for dativemōrologiamōrologiai

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
mōrologistem+agender+snruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

mōrologia 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

mōrologias“foolish talk”subjectnominative singular

Ephesians 5:4“foolish talk”kai aischrotas kai mōrologias ē eutrapelias, heim ouk anēkate, alla mallon eucharistias.Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.