# G878 ἄφρων

ἄφρων (áphrōn), Strong’s G878: properly, mindless, i.e. stupid, (by implication) ignorant, (specially) egotistic, (practically) rash, or (morally) unbelieving KJV: fool(-ish), unwise. Occurs 139…

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*áphrōn* — properly, mindless, i.e. stupid, (by implication) ignorant, (specially) egotistic, (practically) rash, or (morally) unbelieving

KJV: fool(-ish), unwise

Built from [Α A](https://besorah.bible/word/G1) (the first letter of the alphabet) + [φρήν phrḗn](https://besorah.bible/word/G5424) (the midrif)

Occurs 139 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Luke 11:40](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/11?v=40) — You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?
- [Luke 12:20](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/12?v=20) — “But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose…
- [Romans 2:20](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/2?v=20) — a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
- [1 Corinthians 15:36](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/15?v=36) — You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.
- [2 Corinthians 11:16](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-corinthians/11?v=16) — I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
- [2 Corinthians 11:19](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-corinthians/11?v=19) — For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
- [2 Corinthians 12:6](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-corinthians/12?v=6) — For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may…
- [2 Corinthians 12:11](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-corinthians/12?v=11) — I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way…
- [Ephesians 5:17](https://besorah.bible/besorah/ephesians/5?v=17) — Therefore, don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
- [1 Peter 2:15](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-peter/2?v=15) — For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.