ἀγνωσία
agnōsía · G56 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to lack knowledge, to have no knowledge, ignorance
The state of lacking knowledge
Examples1 Corinthians 15:34 Sober up morally and stop sinning, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
1 Peter 2:15 For such is the will of God, that by doing right you silence the ignorance of foolish people.
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not to understand, to fail to understand
To not understand, with the implication of a lack of capacity or ability
Examples1 Corinthians 15:34 Sober up morally and stop sinning, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
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what is not understood
That which is not understood or comprehended, implying a lack of capacity
Examples1 Peter 2:15 For such is the will of God, that by doing right you silence the ignorance of foolish people.
How it’s used In 2 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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- θεόςGod 1
- ἄνθρωποςman, person, people 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἀγαθοποιέωto do good 1
- ἔχωto have 1
- φιμόωto muzzle 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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Semantic domains 3 entries
- To lack knowledge, to have no knowledge, ignorance28.16
- This noun denotes a lack of knowledge, as in 1 Corinthians 15:34's rebuke, "Sober up morally and stop sinning, for some have no knowledge of God."
- Not to understand, to fail to understand32.7
- The noun also denotes a failure to understand rightly, as in 1 Peter 2:15's reference to silencing the ignorance of foolish people by doing what is right.
- What is not understood32.8
- This domain reflects a further sense of the content that remains unrecognized, found elsewhere in this word's range of occurrences rather than being illustrated by the citations sampled here.
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 (γνῶσις), want of knowledge, ignorance: 1 Pet 2:15; 1 Cor 15:34 (Wis. 13:1).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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