Unlearned

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Ἀγράμματος (Strong'S #62 — Adjective — agrammatos — ag-ram-mat-os )

lit., "unlettered" (grammata, "letters:" grapho, "to write"),  Acts 4:13 , is explained by Grimm-Thayer as meaning "unversed in the learning of the Jewish schools;" in the papyri, however, it occurs very frequently in a formula used by one who signs for another who cannot write, which suggests that the rulers, elders and scribes regarded the Apostles as "unlettered" (Moulton and Milligan).

2: Ἀμαθής (Strong'S #261 — Adjective — amathes — am-ath-ace' )

"unlearned" (manthano, "to learn"), is translated "unlearned" in  2—Peter 3:16 , AV (RV, "ignorant").

3: Ἀπαίδευτος (Strong'S #521 — Adjective — apaideutos — ap-ah'ee-dyoo-tos )

"uninstructed" (paideuo, "to train, teach"), is translated "unlearned" in  2—Timothy 2:23 , AV (RV, "ignorant").

 1—Corinthians 14:16,23,24Ignorant

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

 Acts 4:13, Peter and John;  John 7:15, "how knoweth this man letters, having never learned?" The Jewish literati did not mean without common education, reading and writing, etc., and general acquaintance with the Old Testament Scriptures, but that Christ and His disciples were not rabbiically learned, never had sat at the feet of the great doctors of the law, they were only laics.

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( a.) Not exhibiting learning; as, unlearned verses.

(2): ( a.) Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate.

(3): ( a.) Not gained by study; not known.

King James Dictionary

UNLEARN'ED, pp.

1. Forgotten. 2. a. Not learned ignorant illiterate not instructed. 3. Not gained by study not known. 4. Not suitable to a learned man as unlearned verses.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

( Ἀγράμματος , Unlettered,  Acts 4:13; Ἀμαθής , uninstructed,  2 Peter 3:16; Ἀπαίδευτος , Untutored,  2 Timothy 2:23; Ἰδιώτης , private,  1 Corinthians 14:16;  1 Corinthians 14:23-24; ‘‘ ignorant,"  Acts 4:13; "rude,"  2 Corinthians 11:6). In  Acts 4:13, the Jewish literati apply the term to Peter and John, in the same sense in which they asked, with regard to our Lord himself, "How knoweth this man letters, having never learned" ( John 7:15). In neither case did they mean to say that they had been altogether without the benefits of the common education, which consisted in reading and writing, and in an acquaintance with the sacred books; but that they were not learned men, had not sat at the feet of any of the great doctors of the law, and had not been instructed in the mysteries and refinements of their peculiar learning and literature. An apostle also uses it to describe those who are little acquainted with the mind of God and the teaching of his Spirit ( 2 Peter 3:16). The "unlearned questions" mentioned by Paul are those which do not tend to edification in sound and substantial religious knowledge. (See Education).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

un - lûr´ned  :   Acts 4:13 for ἀγράμματος , agrámmatos , literally "illiterate." But nothing more than "lacking technical rabbinical instruction" seems to be meant (compare  John 7:15 ).  1 Corinthians 14:16 ,  1 Corinthians 14:23 ,  1 Corinthians 14:24 for ἰδιώτης , idiṓtēs , "private person," the Revised Version margin "he that is without gifts," correctly expresses the sense ("unbeliever" is hardly in point); also the King James Version,  2 Timothy 2:23;  2 Peter 3:16 (the Revised Version (British and American) "ignorant").