anoētos · foolish

What it means

anoētos (ἀνόητος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “foolish”.

Without understanding.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Lacking understanding, without judgment.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Luke×1
• Romans×1
• Galatians×2
• 1 Timothy×1
• Titus×1

• Luke 24:25

  And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

• Romans 1:14

  I am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

• Galatians 3:1

  O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus the Messiah was publicly portrayed as crucified?

• Galatians 3:3

  Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now finishing by the flesh?

• 1 Timothy 6:9

  But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction.

• Titus 3:3

  For we also were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.