Aphrōn ἄφρων

Aphrōn (Greek ἄφρων, Strong's G878) is a Greek adjective meaning “foolish”. It occurs 11 times in 10 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Aphrōn, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Luke

• Luke 11:40
  Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside as well?
• Luke 12:20
  But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’

Romans

• Romans 2:20
  An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—

1 Corinthians

• 1 Corinthians 15:36
  Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

2 Corinthians

• 2 Corinthians 11:16
  I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then receive me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.
• 2 Corinthians 11:19
  For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.For you gladly tolerate fools, since you are so wise.
• 2 Corinthians 12:6
  For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.Even if I wanted to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me,
• 2 Corinthians 12:11
  I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

Ephesians

• Ephesians 5:17
  Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

1 Peter

• 1 Peter 2:15
  For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorance of foolish men.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).