Anoia means “folly” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H454 — elyehoeynay (“Elihoenai”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G454 ἄνοια (anoia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. anoia (an'-oy-ah) n. 1. stupidity 2. (by implication) rage It has 15 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include madness and folly. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
anoia (an'-oy-ah) n. 1. stupidity 2. (by implication) rage [from a compound of G1 (as a negative particle) and G3563] KJV: folly, madness Root(s): G1, G3563
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G454. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
folly
Usage: ἀνοια, -ας, ἡ (ἄ-νοος, without understanding), [in LXX: Pro.14:8, 2215 (אִוֶּלֶת), Wis.15:18, al. ;] folly, foolishness: 2Ti.3:9; expressed in violent rage (cf. Plat., Tim., 86B): Luk.6:11.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render anoia, 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 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and New Testament. 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 G454 (ἄνοια) appears 13 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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2 indexed usages in New Testament.
And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.
5 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Though there should be a thousand messengers of death, Not one of them shall wound him: If he should purpose in his heart to turn to the Lord, And declare to man his fault, And show his folly;
O my God, I will cry to thee by day, but thou wilt not hear: And by night, and it shall not be accounted for folly to me.
The wisdom of the prudent will understand their ways; But the folly of fools leads astray.
8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
for he saw that it was impossible that the state should continue quiet, and Simon leave his folly, unless the king did look thereunto.
Whereupon the common people rising, and being filled with rage, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and began first to offer violence; one Auranus being the leader, a man far gone in years, and no less in folly.
Howbeit, having gotten opportunity to further his foolish enterprise, and being called into council by Demetrius, and asked how the Jews stood affected, and what they intended, he answered thereunto:
First 15 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G454.
Though there should be a thousand messengers of death, Not one of them shall wound him: If he should purpose in his heart to turn to the Lord, And declare to man his fault, And show his folly;
O my God, I will cry to thee by day, but thou wilt not hear: And by night, and it shall not be accounted for folly to me.
The wisdom of the prudent will understand their ways; But the folly of fools leads astray.
But the rod and instruction are then far from him.
Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, And put away evil from thy flesh: For youth and folly are vanity.
And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.
for he saw that it was impossible that the state should continue quiet, and Simon leave his folly, unless the king did look thereunto.
Whereupon the common people rising, and being filled with rage, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and began first to offer violence; one Auranus being the leader, a man far gone in years, and no less in folly.
Howbeit, having gotten opportunity to further his foolish enterprise, and being called into council by Demetrius, and asked how the Jews stood affected, and what they intended, he answered thereunto:
And when he had cut out the tongue of that ungodly Nicanor, he commanded that they should give it by pieces unto the fowls, and hang up the reward of his madness before the temple.
So, having bestowed considerable sums of money upon the temples of the several cities, we proceeded even as far as Jerusalem; and went up to honor the temple of these wretched beings who never cease from their folly.
We then, having endeavored to make allowance for the madness of these persons, and on our victorious return treating all people in Egypt courteously, acted in a manner which was befitting.
Yea, they worshiped those beasts also that are most hateful: For being compared together, some are worse than others.
For while they were yet mourning And making lamentation at the graves of the dead, They added another foolish device, And pursued them as fugitives, whom they had entreated to be gone.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G454, grouped by book.
Anoia (Strong's G454) is a Greek word most simply glossed "folly". anoia (an'-oy-ah) n. 1. stupidity 2. (by implication) rage
This page currently indexes 15 linked usages for Strong's G454 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G454 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 madness and folly. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 5 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G454, with linked reader references where each row is available.