agnōstos

Strong’sG57

unknown

stem agnōst-once in the New Testament1 of 26 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.

** ἄγνωστος, -ον

(< γινώσκω), [in LXX: Wi 11:18 18:3, II Mac 1:19 2:7 (Cremer, 157)*;]

unknown: Ac 17:23 (cf. MM, VGT, s.v.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G57 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidag'-noce-tos'

unknown

Fromfrom G1 (as negative particle) and G1110;

King Jamesunknown.

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

ἄγνωστος, ον,
unknown, τινίRefs 8th c.BC+; unheard of, forgotten,Refs 5th c.BC+; unfamiliar, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 not to be known, ἄγνωστόν τινα τεύχεινRefs 8th c.BC+; ἀγνωστστατοι γλῶσσαν most unintelligible in tongue, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 not an object of knowledge, unknowable, ἄλογα καὶ ἄ.Refs 5th c.BC+; in comparative, harder to know, Refsadverb -τωςRefs 5th c.AD+
4 as the name of a divinity at Athens, νὴ τὸν Ἄγνωστον Ps.-NT+2nd c.AD+
II active, notknowing, ignorant of, ψευδέωνRefs 5th c.BC+adverb -τως inconsiderately, Refs 1st c.BC+

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.

unknown1×

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	agnōstos	agnōstas	agnōstem	agnōstois	agnōstais	agnōsteim
object accusative	agnōston	agnōstan		agnōstoin	agnōstain
direct address vocative	agnōstor	agnōstar		agnōstoir	agnōstair
of, belonging to genitive	agnōstou	agnōstau	agnōsteu	agnōstoiu	agnōstaiu	agnōsteiu
to, for dative	agnōsto1×Ἀγνώστῳ	agnōsta	agnōste	agnōstoi	agnōstai	agnōstei

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

agnōststem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

agnōst 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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

agnōsto“unknown”to, fordative singular1×

Acts 17:23… heuriskama kai bōmon en ho epigrafotelē; Agnōsto theo. hem oun agnoarōntois eusebavō, houtem …… altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as …