Senses
1. foolish, senseless — Lacking understanding or good judgment, behaving without wisdom or moral discernment. From alpha-privative + φρήν (mind), denoting one who is devoid of sense. Cross-linguistically consistent: Arabic جاهل (ignorant), German toericht (foolish), Spanish insensato, Hebrew סכל/כסיל, Korean 어리석은, Hindi मूर्ख/निर्बुद्धि, French insense. Used as both adjective and substantive. Luke 11:40 (fools, did not He who made the outside also make the inside?), Luke 12:20 (God calls the rich man 'Fool'), Rom 2:20 (instructor of the foolish), 1 Cor 15:36 (foolish one, what you sow does not come to life unless it dies), 2 Cor 11:16,19, 12:6,11 (Paul's 'foolish boasting' discourse), Eph 5:17 (do not be foolish but understand the Lord's will), 1 Pet 2:15 (silencing the ignorance of foolish people). All inflectional variants (nominative, accusative, genitive, vocative; singular and plural) express one core semantic domain of intellectual and moral deficiency. 11×
AR["الجُهَّالَ","الجُهّالِ","جاهِلاً","جاهِلٍ","جاهِلُ","جهلاءَ","جُهّالُ","لِلْجُهَلاءِ","يَا-جَاهِلُ"]·ben["নির্বোধদের","বোকা","মূর্খ","মূর্খদের","মূর্খদের,","মূর্খরা"]·DE["toericht","ἄφρονες","Ἄφρων"]·EN["Fool","fool","foolish","foolish-one","fools","of-foolish"]·FR["insensé"]·heb["כְּסִילִים","כְסִילִים","סְכָלִים","סָכָל"]·HI["निरबोध","निर्बुद्धि","निर्बुद्धियो","मूर्ख","मूर्ख-को","मूर्खों-का","मूर्खों-को"]·ID["Bodoh","Hai-orang-bodoh","bodoh","bodoh,","orang-bodoh","orang-bodoh,"]·IT["aphrones","aphronōn","stolto"]·jav["Tiyang-tanpa-akal","bodho","tiyang-bodho","tiyang-bodho,","tiyang-tanpa-akal"]·KO["어리석은","어리석은-자가","어리석은-자들-의","어리석은-자들-이","어리석은-자들아","어리석은-자들을","어리석은-자로","어리석은-자야","어리석은-자여"]·PT["Insensato","de-insensatos","insensatos","insensatos,","louco","loucos"]·RU["Безумные","Безумный","безумного","безумный","безумным","безумных","неразумными,","неразумных"]·ES["Insensato","Insensatos","de-insensatos","insensato","insensatos"]·SW["Mpumbavu","mpumbavu","mpumbavu;","wa-wajinga","wapumbavu","wapumbavu,"]·TR["Akılsız","ahmak-olanlarin,","akılsız","akılsızlar","akılsızlara","akılsızların","aptal","fakat"]·urd["اے-بیوقوف","بے-وقوف","بے-وقوفو","بے-وقوفوں","بے-وقوفوں-کا","بے-وقُوف","بےوقوفوں"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
ἄφρων, ον, genitive ονος, (φρήν) senseless, of statues, Refs 5th c.BC+:— and so, crazed, frantic, ἄφρονα κούρηνRefs 8th c.BC+; silly, foolish, Refs 8th c.BC+; τὸ ἄ., ={ἀφροσύνη}, Refs 5th c.BC+; τῶ φρονίμῳ τῆς γνώμης παύοντες τὸ ἄ. [τῆς ῥώμης] Refs 5th c.BC+: comparative -έστεροςRefs 5th c.BC+: superlative -έστατοςRefs 5th c.BC+. adverb -νως senselessly, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to νοῦν ἐχόντως,…