Greek noun (feminine) · G3472
μωρία
moriamo-ree'-ah
foolishness
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mōría
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3472is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3472
silliness, i.e. absurdity
The King James renders it: foolishness.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
moria is rendered "foolishness". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Five of the uses stand in 1 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Corinthians 1:18For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1:18μωρία
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's five uses are in 1 Corinthians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- foolishness5
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- μωρία3
- μωρίαν1
- μωρίας1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular3N-NSF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1N-GSF
1 Corinthians
five uses
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
- μωρίαmorianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: foolishness
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
- μωρίαςmoriasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: foolishness
but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
- μωρίανmoriannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: foolishness
The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- μωρίαmorianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: foolishness
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”
- μωρίαmorianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: foolishness
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.