G3472 μωρία
mōría — silliness, i.e. absurdity
KJV: foolishness
Derived from μωρός mōrós (dull or stupid)
Occurs 7 times. Every verse with this word
Where it occurs
- 1 Corinthians 1:18 — For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
- 1 Corinthians 1:21 — For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through…
- 1 Corinthians 1:23 — but we proclaim Messiah crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Greeks,
- 1 Corinthians 2:14 — Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know…
- 1 Corinthians 3:19 — For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”
- Sirach 20:31 —
- Sirach 41:15 — Better is a man who hides his foolishness than a man who hides his wisdom.