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
Citing in TDNT: 3:215, 348
G2399
From G2398; a private person, that is, (by implication) an ignoramus (compare "idiot"): - ignorant, rude, unlearned.
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University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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