ἀγράμματος
agrámmatos · G62 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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uneducated, unlearned
Pertaining to one who has not acquired a formal education (referring primarily to formal training)
ExamplesActs 4:13 Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus.
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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Near synonyms 2 words
- ἰδιώτης idiṓtēs · G2399 · layman, ordinary person, amateur
- ἰδιώτης denotes someone who is untrained or unskilled in a particular field (often used of those lacking rhetorical or technical training), while ἀγράμματος specifically refers to someone who lacks literacy or formal education in letters; both overlap in the sense of 'unlearned' but from different angles (technical skill vs. literacy).
- ἀπαίδευτος apaídeutos · G521 · uneducated, foolish, ignorant
- ἀπαίδευτος refers to someone lacking instruction or training (παιδεία), thus 'uneducated' in a general sense, while ἀγράμματος specifically refers to lacking literacy or knowledge of letters; both denote lack of education but ἀπαίδευτος is broader and not necessarily tied to literacy.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Uneducated, unlearned27.23
- This adjective denotes lacking formal education, as in Acts 4:13's account of the rulers observing the boldness of Peter and John and recognizing that they were uneducated and untrained men.
Word family 14 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (γράμμα), illiterate, without learning: Acts 4:13 (i. e. unversed in the learning of the…
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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