What does ἀγράμματος (agrámmatos) mean in the Bible?
ἀγράμματος (agrámmatos): Lacking formal education or training in reading, writing, and scholarly instruction
Greek · G62
ἀγράμματος
Unschooled
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ἀγράμματος G62
Pronunciation agrámmatos
What does ἀγράμματος (agrámmatos) mean in the Bible?
ἀγράμματος (agrámmatos): Lacking formal education or training in reading, writing, and scholarly instruction
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How does the BSB render G62?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include unschooled (1).
Where does ἀγράμματος (agrámmatos) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Acts 4:13. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It unschooled 1× Acts 4:13
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Acts 4:13
Aligned rows 1
Books represented 1
Acts 1
Source forms
ἀγράμματοί 1x agrammatoi Acts 4:13
Parsing patterns
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural 1x Acts 4:13
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Lacking formal education or training in reading, writing, and scholarly instruction
Strong's G62
Lexical occurrences 1 verse Greek text appearances 1 time Word forms 1 form 1 reference Verse guides 0 guides
Study link Acts 4:13-22 Source Gloss
unschooled
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Lacking formal education or training in reading, writing, and scholarly instruction
(ἀγραυλος, dwelling in the field; ἀγρός, αὐλή), to live in the fields: Luk.2:8.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Acts 4:13 Adjective Nominative Plural Masculine
ἀγράμματοί agrammatoi
uneducated
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 1 Aligned forms 1 Case pattern Nominative (1) Number pattern Plural (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Plural · Masculine Acts 4:13 1×
Where It Appears in Scripture
Where this word appears in Scripture: passage, original form, and sense in context.
New Testament Witnesses
Without formal rabbinic schooling.
Word Origins
ἀγράμματος is built from these roots:
Why This Word Matters
The power of the gospel does not depend on elite academic status but on divine calling and empowerment. Acts 4:13-22
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain