Moraino means “become insipid” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3471 — yashepheh (“jasper”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3471 μωραίνω (moraino) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. moraino (mo-rai'-no) v. 1. to become insipid 2. (figuratively) to make dull It has 9 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include fools and foolish. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
moraino (mo-rai'-no) v. 1. to become insipid 2. (figuratively) to make dull 3. (passively) act as a simpleton [from G3474] KJV: become fool, make foolish, lose savour Root(s): G3474
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3471. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
be foolish
Usage: μωραίνω (μωρός), [in LXX: Isa.19:11, Jer.10:14 51:17 (בָּעַר ni.), 2Ki.24:10, Isa.44:25 R (שָׂכַל ni., pi.)* ;] __1. cl., to be foolish, play the fool. __2. LXX and NT, causal, to make foolish: 1Co.1:20; pass., to become foolish: Rom.1:22; of salt that has lost its flavour, become tasteless: Mat.5:13, Luk.14:34.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render moraino, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3471 (μωραίνω) appears 5 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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4 indexed usages in New Testament.
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
4 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And the heart of David smote him after he had numbered the people; and David said to the Lord, I have sinned grievously, O Lord, in what I have now done: remove, I pray thee, the iniquity of thy servant, for I have been exceedingly foolish.
And the princes of Tanis shall be fools: as for the king’s wise counselors, their counsel shall be turned into folly: how will ye say to the king, We are sons of wise men, sons of ancient kings?
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Remember thy father and thy mother, When thou sittest among great men. Be not forgetful before them, And so thou by thy custom become a fool, And wish that thou hadst not been born, And curse the day of thy nativity.
First 9 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3471.
And the heart of David smote him after he had numbered the people; and David said to the Lord, I have sinned grievously, O Lord, in what I have now done: remove, I pray thee, the iniquity of thy servant, for I have been exceedingly foolish.
And the princes of Tanis shall be fools: as for the king’s wise counselors, their counsel shall be turned into folly: how will ye say to the king, We are sons of wise men, sons of ancient kings?
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Every man has completely lost understanding; every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images: for they have cast false gods, there is no breath in them.
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
Remember thy father and thy mother, When thou sittest among great men. Be not forgetful before them, And so thou by thy custom become a fool, And wish that thou hadst not been born, And curse the day of thy nativity.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3471, grouped by book.
Moraino (Strong's G3471) is a Greek word most simply glossed "become insipid". moraino (mo-rai'-no) v. 1. to become insipid 2. (figuratively) to make dull
This page currently indexes 9 linked usages for Strong's G3471 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3471 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as fools and foolish. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 4 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3471, with linked reader references where each row is available.