Word Summary
asynetos: without understanding
Original Word: ἀσύνετοςTransliteration: asynetos
Phonetic Spelling: (as-oon'-ay-tos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: without understanding
Meaning: without understanding
Strong's Concordance
foolish, without understanding.
From a (as a negative particle) and sunetos; unintelligent; by implication, wicked -- foolish, without understanding.
see GREEK a
see GREEK sunetos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 801: ἀσύνετοςἀσύνετος,
ἀσύνετον,
unintelligent, without understanding:
Matthew 15:16;
Mark 7:18;
stupid:
Romans 1:21;
Romans 10:19. In imitation of the Hebrew
נָבָל,
ungodly (Wis. 1:5; Sir. 15:7f (cf.
ἀσυνέτειν,
Psalm 118:158 ())), because a wicked man has no mind for the things which make for salvation: Romans 1:31 (others adhere here to the Greek usage; cf. Fritzsche at the passage). (In Greek writings from Herodotus down.) (Cf. σοφός, at the end).