idiōtēs · ordinary person, layman

What it means

idiōtēs (ἰδιώτης) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “ordinary person, layman”.

An ordinary person, without special training or office; unskilled, untrained.

How to say it

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

1. A person without schooling or special training.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• uninstructed ×3
• ordinary ×1
• unskilled ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Acts×1
• 1 Corinthians×3
• 2 Corinthians×1

• Acts 4:13

  Now seeing the boldness of Peter and John, and realizing that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were amazed; and they recognized them, that they had been with Jesus.

• 1 Corinthians 14:16

  Otherwise, if you bless in the spirit, how will the one who fills the place of the uninstructed say the Amen to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?

• 1 Corinthians 14:23

  If then the whole assembly comes together in the same place and all speak in tongues, and uninstructed people or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your minds?

• 1 Corinthians 14:24

  But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or uninstructed person comes in, he is convicted by all, he is examined by all,

• 2 Corinthians 11:6

  And even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not in knowledge; on the contrary, in every way we have made this manifest to you in all things.