Bill Mounce

For an Informed Love of God

ἀμαθής

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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
ἀμαθής, ές
Greek transliteration: 
amathēs
Simplified transliteration: 
amathes
Numbers
Strong's number: 
261
GK Number: 
276
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
1
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
a-4a
Gloss: 
ignorant, without a formal education
Definition: 
unlearned, uninstructed, rude, 2 Pet. 3:16*

Greek-English Concordance for

2 Peter 3:16 as he does in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters, in which are some things hard to understand, things that the ignorant (amatheis | ἀμαθεῖς | nom pl masc) and unstable distort to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.