Lexicon idiótés: a private or unskilled person Original Word: ἰδιώτης, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: idiótés Phonetic Spelling: (id-ee-o'-tace) Short Definition: an amateur, layman Definition: (unofficial, hence) an amateur, an unprofessional man, a layman; an ungifted person. HELPS word-Studies 2399 idiṓtēs (from 2398 /ídios, "own") – properly, of one's own self; used of a person who conspicuously lacks education or status – hence, easily misunderstood as being uninstructed (unrefined, "unlettered in speech"). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom idiosDefinitiona private or unskilled person NASB Translationungifted (1), ungifted man (1), ungifted men (1), unskilled (1), untrained (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2399: ἰδιώτηςἰδιώτης, ἰδιώτου, ὁ ( ἴδιος), very common in Greek writings from Herodotus down; properly, a private person, opposed to a magistrate, ruler, king; but the noun has many other meanings also, each one of which is understood from its antithesis, as e. g. a common soldier, as opposed to a military officer; a writer of prose, as opposed to a poet. In the N. T. an unlearned, illiterate, man, opposed to the learned, the educated: Acts 4:13; as often in classical Greek, unskilled in any art: in eloquence ( Isocrates, p. 43 a.), with the dative of respect, τῷ λόγῳ, 2 Corinthians 11:6 ( A. V. rude in speech); a Christian who is not a prophet, 1 Corinthians 14:24; "destitute of the 'gift of tongues,'" 1 Corinthians 14:16, 23. (Cf. Trench, § lxxix.)
Strong's ignorant, rude, unlearned. From idios; a private person, i.e. (by implication) an ignoramus (compare "idiot") -- ignorant, rude, unlearned. see GREEK idios |
