adjective

amathos

Greekἀμαθής (amathēs)

Strong’sG261

unlearned, ignorant

stem amath-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

Translated as

ignorant1×

What it means

** ἀμαθής, -ές

(< μανθάνω), [in Sm.: Ps 49:11*;]

unlearned, ignorant: II Pe 3:16 (on the rareness of this word, v. 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 G261 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidam-ath-ace'

ignorant

Fromfrom G1 (as a negative particle) and G3129;

King Jamesunlearned.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	amathos	amathas	amathem	amathois1×ἀμαθεῖς	amathais	amatheim
object accusative	amathon	amathan		amathoin	amathain
direct address vocative	amathor	amathar		amathoir	amathair
of, belonging to genitive	amathou	amathau	amatheu	amathoiu	amathaiu	amatheiu
to, for dative	amatho	amatha	amathe	amathoi	amathai	amathei

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

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

amath 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

amathois“ignorant”subjectnominative plural1×

2 Peter 3:16“ignorant”hōs kai en pantai tai epistolai lalarōtos en autai peri houteiu, en hai atō dusnoēteim tineim, heim tois amathois kai astēriktois streblalō hōs kai tain loipain grafain pros tan idian autoiu apōleian.He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.