The verb mōrainō (make crazy) in the Bible

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Matthew

5: 13You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has gone crazy (mōrainō), how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under foot.

Luke

14: 34"Salt is good; but if salt has gone crazy (mōrainō), how can its saltiness be restored?

1 Corinthians

1: 20Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish (mōrainō) the wisdom of the world?

Romans

1: 22Claiming to be wise, they became fools (mōrainō)

Isaiah (LXX)

19: 11And the princes of Tanis shall be fools: as for the king's wise counsellors, their counsel shall be turned into folly (mōrainō): how will ye say to the king, We are sons of wise men, sons of ancient kings?

Jeremiah (LXX)

10: 14Every man went crazy (mōrainō) with respect to knowledge, every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images; for he has cast false gods, there is no breath in them.

2 Samuel (LXX)

24: 10And the heart of David smote him after he had numbered the people; and David said to the Lord, I have sinned grievously, O Lord, in what I have now done: remove, I pray thee, the iniquity of thy servant, for I have been exceedingly foolish (mōrainō).

Sirach (LXX)

23: 14Remember thy father and thy mother, when thou sittest among great men. Be not forgetful before them, and so thou by thy custom become a fool (mōrainō), and wish that thou hadst not been born, and curse the day of thy nativity.