Strong’s G878 · Greek
ἄφρων
áphrōn · af'-rone
Origin from Α (G1) (as a negative particle) and φρήν (G5424);
Meaning properly, mindless, i.e. stupid, (by implication) ignorant, (specially) egotistic, (practically) rash, or (morally) unbelieving
In the King James Version fool(-ish), unwise.
In 10 verses of the King James Version
- Luke 11:40Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
- Luke 12:20But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
- Romans 2:20An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
- 1 Corinthians 15:36Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
- 2 Corinthians 11:16I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
- 2 Corinthians 11:19For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
- 2 Corinthians 12:6For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
- 2 Corinthians 12:11I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
- Ephesians 5:17Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
- 1 Peter 2:15For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.