ἄγνοια
ágnoia · G52 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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to not know, to be unaware of, to be ignorant of, ignorance
To not have information about
ExamplesActs 3:17 “And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers also did.
Acts 17:30 “So having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now proclaiming to mankind that all people everywhere are to repent,
Ephesians 4:18 being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- σύyou 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰμίto be 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- διάthrough 2
- κατάaccording to, against, down 2
- ἐνin 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- χρόνοςtime 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- שְׁגָגָה shᵉgâgâh · H7684 · unintentional sin, error, mistake
- Hebrew שְׁגָגָה (shᵉgâgâh, H7684) denotes error or sin committed in ignorance/unwittingly, corresponding to Greek ἄγνοια (ágnoia, G52) which denotes the quality or state of ignorance itself; both terms share the core semantic domain of actions/states characterized by lack of knowledge, with the Hebrew term emphasizing the unintentional act resulting from ignorance and the Greek term emphasizing the cognitive state of not-knowing.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To not know, to be unaware of, to be ignorant of, ignorance28.13
- This noun denotes a lack of knowledge, as in Acts 3:17's statement, "I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers also did."
Word family 25 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ας, ἡ (from Aeschylus down), want of knowledge, ignorance, especially of divine things:…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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