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God,” not
, “foolishness” as a personal quality (see C, No. 1), but adjectivally, that
which is considered by the ignorant as a “foolish” policy or mode of dealing, lit., “the
foolish (thing)”; so in v. 27, “the foolish (things) of the world.”¶
4.
$
(
"
, 801) denotes “without discernment,” or “understanding” ( ,
negative,
$
, “to understand”); hence “senseless,” as in the
RV
of Rom. 1:21 (
KJV
,
“foolish”), of the heart; in 10:19,
KJV
, “foolish,”
RV
, “void of understanding.” See
UNDERSTANDING
.
Note:
For “fools,” Eph. 5:15, see
UNWISE
, No. 3.
B. Verbs.
1.
(
$ &
, 3471) is used (a) in the causal sense, “to make foolish,” 1 Cor.
1:20; (b) in the passive sense, “to become foolish,” Rom. 1:22; in Matt. 5:13 and Luke
14:34 it is said of salt that has lost its flavor, becoming tasteless. See
SAVOUR
.¶
2.
(
$ $
!
, 3912), “to be beside oneself” (from
, “contrary
to,” and
, “the mind”), “to be deranged,” 2 Cor. 11:23,
RV
, “as one beside himself,”
for
KJV
, “as a fool.”¶
C. Nouns.
1.
(
$&
, 3472) denotes “foolishness” (akin to A, No. 3 and B, No. 1), and is
used in 1 Cor. 1:18, 21, 23; 2:14; 3:19.¶
2.
$
(
$ "
, 877), “senselessness,” is translated “foolishness” in Mark
7:22; 2 Cor. 11:1, 17, 21, “foolishness,”
RV
(
KJV
“folly” and “foolishly”). See
FOLLY
.¶
: & "
denotes “foolish talking,” Eph. 5:4. See
TALKING
.¶
FOOT, FEET
A. Nouns.
1.
$
(
"
, 4228), besides its literal meaning, is used, by metonymy, of “a person
in motion,” Luke 1:79; Acts 5:9; Rom. 3:15; 10:15; Heb. 12:13. It is used in phrases
expressing subjection, 1 Cor. 15:27,
RV
; of the humility and receptivity of discipleship,
Luke 10:39; Acts 22:3; of obeisance and worship, e.g., Matt. 28:9; of scornful rejection,
Matt. 10:14; Acts 13:51. Washing the “feet” of another betokened the humility of the
service and the comfort of the guest, and was a feature of hospitality, Luke 7:38; John
13:5; 1 Tim. 5:10 (here figuratively).
Note:
In Acts 7:5
, “a step,” is used with podos, the genitive case of
$
, lit.,
“the step of a foot,” i.e., “a foot breadth,” what the “foot” can stand on, “(not so much as)
to set his foot on.”
2.
(
1
, 939), lit., “a step” (akin to
, “to go”), hence denotes that with
which one steps, “a foot,” and is used in the plural in Acts 3:7.¶
B. Adjectives.
1.
(
)$
, 4158) signifies “reaching to the feet,” from
$
, and
, “to
fit” (akin to A, No. 1), and is said of a garment, Rev. 1:13.¶ In the Sept. it is used of the
high priest’s garment, e.g., Ex. 28:4. 2.
(
)$
, 3978), an adjective, “on foot,” is
used in one of its forms as an adverb in Matt. 14:3, and Mark 6:33, in each place