Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Ignorant (apaideutouv). Old verbal, here only in N.T. (a privative and paideuw). Untrained, uneducated, "speculations of a half-educated mind" (Parry).
Refuse (paraitou). See I Timothy 4:7.
They gender strifes (gennwsin maxav). Present active indicative of old and common verb gennaw (Romans 9:11). "They beget battles." See II Timothy 2:14.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 2 Timothy 2:23:
Luke 14:18
1 Timothy 1:4
1 Timothy 4:7
Titus 3:9
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