Quick Definition
ἀμαθής, ές Adj unlearned, ignorant
Strong's Definition
from 1 (as a negative particle) and 3129; ignorant
KJV Usage: unlearned
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
conj. | -ές | ἀ- + μανθάνω
27.24 · Learn · Learn
uneducated, unlearned, ignorant pertaining to one who has not acquired a formal education, and hence with the implication of being stupid and ignorant
1 It is also possible to understand ἀμαθής as meaning a person who has not been taught or instructed, and accordingly, such a meaning would be classified under Communication (33).
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀμαθής, -és, zen. -ods, (μανθάνω, whence ἔμαθον, τὸ μάθος, cf. ἀληθής), unlearned, ignorant: 2 Pet. 111. 16. (In Grk. writ. fr. Hdt. down.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀμαθής amathēs 1x
unlearned, uninstructed, rude, 2 Pet. 3:16*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** 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.).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀμαθής. From the Hellenistic period, but in the local dialect, is the well-known Epidaurus inscription, Sy// 802 (ili/B.c.) : here in 1.39 we have trépvapa τᾶς ἀμαθίας, of a votive silver pig offered in the shrine. The adj. (2 Pet 315) might from its NT record be literary. J. B. Mayor (ἦε Joc.) remarks, “Tt is strange that so common a word as ἀμαθής should not be found elsewhere in the NT or LXX, its place being taken by such words as ἰδιώτης (Ac 415, 1 Cor 1416 35), or ἀγράμματος (Ac 41%), or ὁ ἀγνοῶν (Heb 5?).” But our failure to find exx. from Hellenistic sources agrees with this absence.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀμαθής (amathēs) — ignorant. 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 καλοῦ[Refs 5th c.BC+]; τι [Refs]adverb -θῶς ignorantly, through ignorance, ἥμαρτον[Refs 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 θεός[Refs 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. ἔρρει[Refs 5th c.BC+]adverb ἀμαθῶς, χωρῆσαι, of events, to take an unforeseen course, [Refs 5th c.BC+]