ἸΔΙΩΤΑΙ, ἰδιωται
IDIŌTAI, idiōtai
Sounds Like: Ee-dee-OH-tai
Translations: private citizens, common people, unlearned, unskilled
From the root: ἸΔΙΩΤΗΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to ordinary people, those who are private citizens without public office, or individuals who are unlearned, unskilled, or uneducated in a particular field. It can describe someone who is a layman as opposed to an expert or official.
Inflection: Plural, Masculine, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G2399 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:47
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 6 — 12:263
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Proverbs — 6:8
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἸΔΙΩΤΗΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἸΔΙΩΤΑΙΣ — (to) private persons, (to) common people, (to) unlearned people, (to) laymen, (to) unskilled persons
- ἸΔΙΩΤΗ — private person, a private person, common person, a common person, unlearned person, an unlearned person, unskilled person, an unskilled person, layman, a layman
- ἸΔΙΩΤΗΝ — a private person, a layman, a common person, an unlearned person, an unskilled person
- ἸΔΙΩΤΗΣ — private person, common person, unlearned person, layman, an unskillful person, an unskilled person
- ἸΔΙΩΤΙΚΑ — private, personal, common, ordinary, a private matter, private affairs, common things, ordinary things
- ἸΔΙΩΤΙΝ — a private person, a common person, an unlearned person, a layman
- ἸΔΙΩΤΟΥ — of a private person, of a common man, of a layman, of an unlearned person, of an unskilled person
- ἸΔΙΩΤΩΝ — (of) private persons, (of) common people, (of) unlearned persons, (of) laymen, (of) ordinary people
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