- Transliteration: Idiotes

- Phonetic: id-ee-o'-tace

- Definition:

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

- Origin: from G2398" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2398

- TDNT entry: 06:35,3

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine

- Strong's: From G2398" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2398; a private person that is (by implication) an ignoramus (compare idiot): - ignorant rude unlearned.