28 occurrences in 12 translations

'Simple' in the Bible

“Then you answered and said to me, ‘We have sinned against the Lord. We will go up and fight, just as the Lord our God has commanded us.’ So you equipped every man with weapons of war, and regarded it as easy to go up into the hill country.

Verse ConceptsUnderestimationEasy For PeopleWe Have Sinned

And Hezekiah said in answer, It is a simple thing for the shade to go forward; but let it go back ten degrees.

Verse ConceptsTen ThingsGoing ForwardBackwardsEasy For God

Your precepts are fully confirmed and completely reliable;Holiness adorns Your house,O Lord, forever.

Verse ConceptsMaking People HolyHolinesscredibility

The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

Verse ConceptsBeing Killed Like An AnimalKilled Like An AnimalDeerimpulsiveness

O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfAcquiring WisdomFools Becoming Wise

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

Verse ConceptsWisdom And Guidance

A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

Verse ConceptsWantonnessA Good Womanignorancewoman

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfShrewdnessPrudenceThinkingScience

The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

Verse ConceptsPrudenceValuing Knowledge

Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfFloggingMockeryRebukeScornersAdvice On Beating PeopleReproving Peoplemockers

When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfMockeryScornersAcquiring KnowledgeJudicial PunishmentMan's Wisdommockers

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.

Verse ConceptsBeing In DebtWisdom, Human ImportanceHiding From Peopleconsequences

A highway will be there, and a roadway;And it will be called the Holy Way.The unclean will not travel on it,But it will be for those who walk on the way [the redeemed];And fools will not wander on it.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfGod's WaysLife, Of FaithHighwayPurity, Nature OfWay, TheThe Work Of FoolsMaking RoadsWalking In God's WayHolinessErrorHighwaysFoolsMissing SomeoneBeing LostThe Environmentbridgesvacation

Then I said, "[They are] just simple people, they are foolish, for they know not the way of Yahweh, the law of their God.

Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfFolly, Effects OfPoverty, SpiritualMoral BankruptcySpiritual IgnorancePoor PeopleCounted As Fools

And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house.

Verse ConceptsIgnorance Of EvilAtoning By SacrificesReconciliationignorance

Bible Theasaurus

Childlike (4 instances)
Elementary (6 instances)
Homely (1 instance)
Household (360 instances)
Simple (46 instances)
Simple-Minded (5 instances)
Simpleton (2 instances)

Reverse Interlinear

Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἄκακος 
Akakos 
Usage: 2

ἀκέραιος 
Akeraios 
Usage: 2

ἁπλότης 
Haplotes 
Usage: 8

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain

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