Greek noun (feminine) · G877
ἀφροσύνη
aphrosyneaf-ros-oo'-nay
foolishness
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: aphrosýnē
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G877is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G877
senselessness, i.e. (euphemistically) egotism; (morally) recklessness
The King James renders it: folly, foolishly(-ness).
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
aphrosyne is rendered "foolishness". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in 2 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 7:22greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
Mark 7:22ἀφροσύνη
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's four uses are in 2 Corinthians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- foolishness3
- of foolishness1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀφρός | aphros | foam | Uses1 |
All 4, 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
- ἀφροσύνῃ2
- ἀφροσύνη1
- ἀφροσύνης1
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular2N-DSF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1N-GSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
Mark
one use
greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
- ἀφροσύνηaphrosunenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: foolishness
2 Corinthians
three uses
I hope you will bear with a little of my foolishness, but you are already doing that.
- ἀφροσύνηςaphrosunesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of foolishness
In this confident boasting of mine, I am not speaking as the Lord would, but as a fool.
- ἀφροσύνῃaphrosunenoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: foolishness
To my shame I concede that we were too weak for that! Speaking as a fool, however, I can match what anyone else dares to boast about.
- ἀφροσύνῃaphrosunenoun · dative (“to / for”) · 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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.