amathos

Strong’sG261

unlearned, ignorant

stem amath-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.

** 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.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἀμαθ-ής, ές,
(μαθεῖν) ignorant, stupid, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to δεξιός, Refs 5th c.BC+; of animals, such as wild boars, unmanageable, θυμώδη καὶ ἀ.Refs 4th c.BC+: with genitive of things, without knowledge of a thing, unlearned in it, -έστερος τοῦ καλοῦRefs 5th c.BC+; τι Refsadverb -θῶς ignorantly, through ignorance, ἥμαρτονRefs 5th c.BC+ to be educated with too little learning to despise the laws, Refs 5th c.BC+less learnedly, Refs 5th c.BC+
b of moral defects, unfeeling, inhuman, ἀ. τις εἶ θεόςRefs 5th c.BC+
2 of things, ἀ. παρρησία boorish freedom of speech, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀ. ῥώμη brute force, Refs 1st c.AD+; ἀ. φρόνημα barbarous pride, Refs 5th c.BC+
II not heard of, unknown, ἀ. ἔρρειRefs 5th c.BC+adverb ἀμαθῶς, χωρῆσαι, of events, to take an unforeseen course, Refs 5th 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.

ignorant1×

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	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

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

amathois“ignorant”subjectnominative plural1×

2 Peter 3:16… hai atō dusnoēteim tineim, heim tois amathois kai astēriktois streblalō hōs kai tain …… letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they …