Strong's #2399: idiotes (pronounced id-ee-o'-tace)

from 2398; a private person, i.e. (by implication) an ignoramus (compare "idiot"):--ignorant, rude, unlearned.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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idiōtēs

1) a private person as opposed to a magistrate, ruler, king

2) a common soldier, as opposed to a military officer

3) a writer of prose as opposed to a poet

4) in the NT, an unlearned, illiterate, man as opposed to the learned and educated: one who is unskilled in any art

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from G2398

Citing in TDNT: 3:215, 348

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Acts 4:13: "they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled; and they took knowledge"
1 Corinthians 14:16: "the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy"
1 Corinthians 14:23: "with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say"
1 Corinthians 14:24: "one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged"
2 Corinthians 11:6: "But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge;"