Word Summary
mōros: dull, stupid, foolish
Original Word: μωρόςTransliteration: mōros
Phonetic Spelling: (mo-ros')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: dull, stupid, foolish
Meaning: dull, stupid, foolish
Strong's Concordance
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
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3474: μωρόςμωρός,
μωρά,
μωρόν (on the accent cf.
Winers Grammar, 52 (51);
Chandler §§ 404, 405),
foolish: with
τυφλός,
Matthew 23:17, 19 (here
T Tr WH text omit;
L brackets
μωροί);
τό μωρόν τοῦ Θεοῦ, an act or appointment of God deemed foolish by men,
1 Corinthians 1:25; equivalent to without learning or erudition,
1 Corinthians 1:27;
1 Corinthians 3:18;
1 Corinthians 4:10; imprudent, without forethought or wisdom,
Matthew 7:26;
Matthew 23:17, 19 (see above);
Matthew 25:2f, 8; equivalent to empty, useless,
ζητήσεις,
2 Timothy 2:23;
Titus 3:9; in imitation of the Hebrew
נָבָל (cf.
Psalm 13:1 (); Job 2:10) equivalent to impious, godless (because such a man neglects and despises what relates to salvation), Matthew 5:22; (some take the word here as a Hebrew term (מורֶה, rebel) expressive of condemnation; cf. Numbers 20:10; Psalm 68:8; but see the Syriac; Field, Otium Norv. pars iii. at the passage; Levy, Neuhebräisch. u. Chald. Wörterbuch under the word מורום). (the Sept. for נָבָל, Deuteronomy 32:6; Isaiah 32:5f; for כְּסִיל, Psalm 93:8 (). (Aeschylus, Sophocles, others.))