ἄγνοια
agnoia · ignorance
Greek word · Strong’s number G52 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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agnoia (ἄγνοια) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “ignorance”.
Not knowing.
How to say it
ag·noi·a
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Not knowing what one should know, above all about God.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
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Where it appears
- Acts 3:17
And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers also did.
- Acts 17:30
So God, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now commands all people everywhere to change their minds,
- Ephesians 4:18
being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;
- 1 Peter 1:14
As children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the desires you had formerly in your ignorance,