noun · feminine
agnoias
Strong’sG52
ignorance
stem agnoi-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἄγνοια, -ας, ἡ
(< ἀγνοέω), [in LXX chiefly for אָשָׁם, שְׁגָגָה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G52 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidag'-noy-ah
ignorance (properly, the quality)
Fromfrom G50;
King Jamesignorance.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(see. γιγνώσκω) want of perception, ignorance, ἀγνοίᾳRefs 4th c.BC+; ἣν ὑπ᾽ ἀγνοίας ὁρᾷς whom seeing you pretend not to know, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to ἐπιστήμη, Refs 5th c.BC+; δι᾽ ἄγνοιαν πράττειν, opposed to ἀγνοῶν, Refs 4th c.BC+ ignoratio elenchi, ignorance of the conditions of a valid proof, Refs 4th c.BC+
II mistaken conduct, a mistake, Refs 5th c.BC+; old Attic dialect, accusative to Refs 2nd c.AD+; Ionic dialect ἀγνοίηRefs 9th c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | agnoias | agnoiais |
| object accusative | agnoian2×ἄγνοιαν | agnoiain |
| direct address vocative | agnoiar | agnoiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | agnoiau1×ἀγνοίας | agnoiaiu |
| to, for dative | agnoia1×ἀγνοίᾳ | agnoiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
agnoia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
agnoian“ignorance”objectaccusative singular2×
Acts 3:17Kai nun, adelfoir, oidamē hoti kata agnoian prassava, hōsper kai tois archontois vu;… I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders.
Ephesians 4:18… tau zōau tou theou, dia tan agnoian tan arōntan en autei, dia tan …… life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to …
agnoiau“ignorance”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 17:30toin men oun chronoin tau agnoiau huperorarantos tos theos teim nun parangelatō …Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands …
agnoia“ignorance”to, fordative singular1×
1 Peter 1:14… mē suschēmatizorōntois tai proterem en ta agnoia vu epithumiai,… to the passions of your former ignorance.