ἄνους
senseless, foolish
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἄνους appears in the Greek Septuagint — 3 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Psalms 48:11 ἄνους And their sepulchres are their houses for ever, even their tabernacles to all generations: they have called their lands after their own names.
- Proverbs 13:14 ἄνους The law of the wise is fountain of life: but the man void of understanding shall die by a snare.
- Hosea 7:11 ἄνους And Ephraim was as a silly dove, not having a heart: he called to Egypt, and they went to the Assyrians.
About this word
About this word
ἄνους (ánous), “senseless, foolish,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 3 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
