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3474. móros

móros: dull, stupid, foolish
Original Word: μωρός, ά, όν
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: móros
Phonetic Spelling: (mo-ros')
Short Definition: stupid, foolish
Definition: (a) adj: stupid, foolish, (b) noun: a fool.

3474 mōrós (the root of the English terms, "moron, moronic") – properly, dull (insipid), flat ("without an edge"); (figuratively) "mentally inert"; dull in understanding; nonsensical ("moronic"), lacking a grip on reality (acting as though "brainless").

[This root (mōr-) "properly refers to physical nerves causing one to become dull, sluggish (so Hipp., Aristotle); used of the mind, dull, stupid, foolish" (Abbott-Smith); "flat/insipid" (WS, 1062). 3474 (mōrós) is used ironically of apparent stupidity in 1 Cor 1;25,27, 3:18.]

Word Origin
a prim. word
Definition
dull, stupid, foolish
NASB Word Usage
fool (1), foolish (7), foolish things (1), foolishness (1), fools (2).

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foolish

Probably from the base of musterion; dull or stupid (as if shut up), i.e. Heedless, (morally) blockhead, (apparently) absurd -- fool(-ish, X -ishness).

see GREEK musterion

ἐμώρανεν — 1 Occ.
ἐμωράνθησαν — 1 Occ.
μωρανθῇ — 2 Occ.
μωρία — 3 Occ.
μωρίαν — 1 Occ.
μωρίας — 1 Occ.
μωρολογία — 1 Occ.
μωρὰ — 1 Occ.
μωραὶ — 3 Occ.
μωρὰς — 2 Occ.
μωρῷ — 1 Occ.
μωροὶ — 2 Occ.
μωρὸν — 1 Occ.
μωρὸς — 1 Occ.
Μωυσῇ — 1 Occ.
Μωυσῆν — 4 Occ.
Μωυσῆς — 43 Occ.
Μωυσέα — 1 Occ.
Μωυσεῖ — 8 Occ.
Μωυσέως — 23 Occ.


Strong's Greek 3474
12 Occurrences


μωρὰ — 1 Occ.
μωραὶ — 3 Occ.
μωρὰς — 2 Occ.
Μωρέ — 1 Occ.
μωρῷ — 1 Occ.
μωροὶ — 2 Occ.
μωρὸν — 1 Occ.
μωρὸς — 1 Occ.

Matthew 5:22 Adj-VMS
BIB: ἂν εἴπῃ Μωρέ ἔνοχος ἔσται
NAS: says, 'You fool,' shall be guilty
KJV: shall say, Thou fool, shall be
INT: anyhow shall say Fool liable will be

Matthew 7:26 Adj-DMS
BIB: ὁμοιωθήσεται ἀνδρὶ μωρῷ ὅστις ᾠκοδόμησεν
NAS: on them, will be like a foolish man
KJV: shall be likened unto a foolish man,
INT: he will be likened to a man foolish who built

Matthew 23:17 Adj-VMP
BIB: μωροὶ καὶ τυφλοί
NAS: You fools and blind men! Which
KJV: [Ye] fools and blind:
INT: fools and blind

Matthew 25:2 Adj-NFP
BIB: αὐτῶν ἦσαν μωραὶ καὶ πέντε
NAS: Five of them were foolish, and five
KJV: and five [were] foolish.
INT: them were foolish and five

Matthew 25:3 Adj-NFP
BIB: αἱ γὰρ μωραὶ λαβοῦσαι τὰς
NAS: For when the foolish took
KJV: They that [were] foolish took their
INT: the indeed foolish having taken the

Matthew 25:8 Adj-NFP
BIB: αἱ δὲ μωραὶ ταῖς φρονίμοις
NAS: The foolish said to the prudent,
KJV: And the foolish said unto the wise,
INT: and [the] foolish to the wise

1 Corinthians 1:25 Adj-NNS
BIB: ὅτι τὸ μωρὸν τοῦ θεοῦ
NAS: Because the foolishness of God
KJV: Because the foolishness of God is
INT: For the foolishness of God

1 Corinthians 1:27 Adj-ANP
BIB: ἀλλὰ τὰ μωρὰ τοῦ κόσμου
NAS: has chosen the foolish things of the world
KJV: hath chosen the foolish things of the world
INT: But the foolish things of the world

1 Corinthians 3:18 Adj-NMS
BIB: αἰῶνι τούτῳ μωρὸς γενέσθω ἵνα
NAS: he must become foolish, so
KJV: let him become a fool, that
INT: age this foolish let him become that

1 Corinthians 4:10 Adj-NMP
BIB: ἡμεῖς μωροὶ διὰ Χριστόν
NAS: We are fools for Christ's sake,
KJV: We [are] fools for Christ's
INT: We [are] fools on account of Christ

2 Timothy 2:23 Adj-AFP
BIB: τὰς δὲ μωρὰς καὶ ἀπαιδεύτους
NAS: But refuse foolish and ignorant
KJV: But foolish and unlearned
INT: and [the] foolish and undisciplined

Titus 3:9 Adj-AFP
BIB: μωρὰς δὲ ζητήσεις
NAS: But avoid foolish controversies
KJV: But avoid foolish questions, and
INT: foolish moreover controversies

12 Occurrences


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