While they were spending many days there, Festus laid Paul's case before the king, saying, "There is a man who was left as a prisoner by Felix;
Original word: ἀφροσύνη
Transliteration: aphrosuné
Definition (short): foolishness
Definition (full): foolishness
Definition: foolishness
NASB Translation: foolishness (4).
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From
aphron ; senselessness, i.e. (euphemistically) egotism; (morally) recklessness -- folly, foolishly(-ness).
see GREEK aphron
KJV:
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
NASB:
deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride and foolishness.
KJV:
Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
NASB:
I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness; but indeed you are bearing with me.
KJV:
That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
NASB:
What I am saying, I am not saying as the Lord would, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
KJV:
I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
NASB:
To my shame I must say that we have been weak by comparison. But in whatever respect anyone else is bold-- I speak in foolishness-- I am just as bold myself.