Simple
פֶּ֫תִיStrong’s H6612peti (pe-ti)
Appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Peti is the Hebrew word usually translated “naive people”, “simple people” and “o naive people”. It appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament.
“The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.”
Meaning
- Adj
- Simplicity, naivete
How it's translated
- naive people 3
- simple people 2
- o naive people 2
- naive 2
- a naive person 2
- a simple person 1
- to naive people 1
- naivete 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 14
- Psalms 3
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 116:6The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
- Psalms 119:130The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
- Proverbs 1:4To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
- Proverbs 1:22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
- Proverbs 1:32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
- Proverbs 7:7And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
Hebrew dictionary
פֶּ֫תִי peti · simple
adj simple, foolish, open-minded
פְּתִי peti · simplicity
simplicity, naivete
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “simple” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SIM'PLE, adjective
[Latin simplex; sine, without and plex, plica, doubling, fold; ]
- Single; consisting of one thing; uncompounded; unmingled; uncombined with any thing else; as a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound.
- Plain; artless; not given to design, stratagem or duplicity; undesigning; sincere; harmless.
- Artless; unaffected; unconstrained; inartificial; plain.
- Unadorned; plain; as a simple style or narration; a simple dress.
All definitions and other forms of “simple”
- Not complex or complicated; as a machine of simple construction.
- Weak in intellect; not wise or sagacious; silly. Proverbs 14:15“The simple believeth every word; but the prudent looketh well to his going” Proverbs 14:15
- In botany, undivided, as a root, stem or spike; only one on a petiole, as a simple leaf; only one on a peduncle, as a simple flower; having only one set of rays, as an umbel; having only one row of leaflets, as a simple calyx; not plumose or fathered, as a pappus.
SIM'PLE, noun
Something not mixed or compounded. in the materia medica, the genral denomination of an herb or plant. as each vegetable is supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy.
SIM'PLE, verb intransitive
To gather simples or plants. As simpling on the flowery hills he stray'd.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.