ἀπαίδευτος
apaídeutos · G521 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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uneducated, foolish, ignorant
Pertaining to that which or one who fails to reflect formal instruction or training
Examples2 Timothy 2:23 But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing that they produce quarrels.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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
- כְּסִיל kᵉçîyl · H3684 · foolish, dull, constellation
- ἀπαίδευτος (apaídeutos, G521) ἀπαίδευτος denotes lack of instruction or training with resultant foolishness, while כְּסִיל (kᵉçîyl, H3684) כְּסִיל denotes a fool characterized by moral and intellectual deficiency; both terms describe foolish persons, with the Greek emphasizing the uninstructed state and the Hebrew emphasizing the character quality, making them natural translation equivalents across the testaments.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Uneducated, foolish, ignorant27.25
- In 2 Timothy 2:23, Paul tells Timothy to “refuse foolish and ignorant (apaideútous) speculations, knowing that they produce quarrels,” describing arguments that reflect a want of proper instruction.
Word family 14 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀπαίδευτον (παιδεύω), without instruction and discipline, uneducated, ignorant, rude…
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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