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Strong's #801 - ἀσύνετος
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ἀσύνετος,
Att. ἀξ-, ον,
I void of understanding,
1. witless, Hp. Fract. 31: Comp., Hdt. 3.81, E. Or. 493, Th. 1.142; φρὴν ἀ. Ar. Av. 456; τί τάδ' ἀσύνετα; what folly is this? E. Hel. 352 (lyr.). Adv. -τως Plu. 2.141b.
2. c. gen., not able to understand, λόγου Heraclit. 1, cf. Plu. 2.713b, Jul. Or. 7.218b.
II not to be understood, unintelligible, E. Ion 1205, Ph. 1731. Adv. -τως Hipparch. 1.8.11.
ἀ -σύνετος , -ον
[in LXX: Deuteronomy 32:21 (H5036). Job 13:2 (H5307), Psalms 92:6 (H3685), Psalms 76:5, Wisdom of Solomon 2:1-24, Sirach 6:1-37*;]
without understanding or discernment: Matthew 15:16, Mark 7:18 (Swete, in l), Romans 1:21; Romans 1:31; Romans 10:19 (for an ex. of its use in the moral sense, v. MM, s.v.).†
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P Oxy III. 471.89 (ii/A.D.), ἦν δὲ οὐκ ἀσύνετον , ";and he was not stupid."; Kaibel 225.3 (near Ephesus) ἀξυνέτων δὲ βουλαῖς ἀνθρώπων τοῦδε ἔτυχον θανάτου : it seems clear that ";foolish"; here does not primarily denote lack of brains but moral obliquity.
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