ἀγνοέω

ἀγνοέω — agnoéō

ἀγνοέω (ΓΝΟ (cf. γινώσκω)), (ῶ (imperative, ἀγνοείτω 1Co 14:38 R g Tr text WH marginal reading); imperfect ἠγνόουν; 1 aorist ἠγνόησα; (passive, present ἀγνοοῦμαι, participle ἀγνοούμενος; from Homer down);

a. to be ignorant, not to know: absolutely, 1Ti 1:13; τινα, τί, Act 13:27; Act 17:23; Rom 10:3; ἐν τίνι (as in Test. Jos. § 14 Fabricii Pseudepigr. ii., p. 717 (but the reading ἠγνόουν ἐπί πᾶσι τούτοις is now given here; see Test. xii. Patr. ad fid. manuscript Cant. etc., Sinker edition, Cambr. 1869)), 2Pe 2:12, unless one prefer to resolve the expression thus: ἐν τούτοις, ἅ ἀγνοοῦσι βλασφημοῦντες, Winers grammar, 629 (584) (cf. Buttmann, 287 (246)); followed by ὅτι, Rom 2:4; Rom 6:3; Rom 7:1; 1Co 14:38 (where the antecedent clause ὅτι κτλ. is to be supplied again); οὐ θέλω ὑμᾶς ἀγνοεῖν, a phrase often used by Paul (an emphatic)scitote: followed by an accusative of the object, Rom 11:25; ὑπέρ τίνος, ὅτι, 2Co 1:8; περί τίνος, 1Co 12:1; 1Th 4:13; followed by ὅτι, Rom 1:13; 1Co 10:1; in the passive ἀγνοεῖται 'he is not known' i. e. according to the context 'he is disregarded,' 1Co 14:38 L T Tr marginal reading WH text; ἀγνωύμενοι (opposed to ἐπιγινωσκόμενοι men unknown, obscure, 2Co 6:9; ἀγνοούμενος τινι unknown to one, Gal 1:22; οὐκ ἀγνοεῖν to know very well, τί, 2Co 2:11 (Wis 12:10).

b. not to understand: τί, Mar 9:32; Luk 9:45.

c. to err, sin through mistake, spoken mildly of those who are not high-handed or willful transgressors (Sir 5:15; 2Ma 11:31): Heb 5:2, on which see Delitzsch.