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פְּתִי

pe.ti

simplicity

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Strong’s H6612bNoun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

naivete1

In the text

Proverbs 1:22פֶתִי
“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[פְּתִי] n.f. simplicity (i.e. lack of wisdom), Pr 1:22.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.