ἀγνοέω agnoeō

Greek word for “be ignorant” · Strong’s G50 · used 22 times in 21 verses

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Meaning

ἀγνοέω, -ῶ (> ἁγνίζω);

How it is translated

Glosses given for agnoeō in context, with how often each is used:

• ignorant 10
• being ignorant 3
• not understanding 2
• not knowing 2
• not having known 1
• unaware 1
• him is ignored 1
• being unknown 1
• unknown 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Mark 9 (1), Luke 9 (1), Acts 13 (1), Acts 17 (1), Romans 1 (1), Romans 2 (1), Romans 6 (1), Romans 7 (1), Romans 10 (1), Romans 11 (1)

Forms

• ἀγνοεῖν 6
• ἠγνόουν 2
• ἀγνοοῦντες 2
• ἀγνοῶν 2
• ἀγνοεῖτε 2
• ἀγνοοῦσιν 2
• ἀγνοήσαντες 1
• ἀγνοεῖ 1
• ἀγνοεῖται 1
• ἀγνοοῦμεν 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with agnoeō more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• ἀδελφός adelphos “brother” 7
• θέλω thelō “to will/desire” 6
• ζάω zaō “to live” 3
• λοιπός loipos “remaining” 2
• διέρχομαι dierchomai “to pass through” 2
• ἄχρι achri “until” 2
• ἤ ē “or” 3
• περί peri “about” 3
• ῥῆμα rhēma “declaration” 2
• φοβέω phobeō “to fear” 2
• ὅσος hosos “just as/how much” 2
• ἔθνος ethnos “Gentiles” 2

Key verses

The verses using agnoeō that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Acts 13:27 — For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have…
• Acts 17:23 — For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I…
• Romans 1:13 — Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also,…
• Romans 2:4 — Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
• Romans 6:3 — Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
• Romans 10:3 — For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of…
• Romans 11:25 — For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to…
• 1 Corinthians 10:1 — Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
• 2 Corinthians 1:8 — For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we…
• 1 Thessalonians 4:13 — But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
• 1 Timothy 1:13 — Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
• 2 Peter 2:12 — But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.