from G2398; a private person, i.e. (by implication) an ignoramus (compare "idiot"):—ignorant, rude, unlearned.
Outline
- a private person as opposed to a magistrate, ruler, king
- a common soldier, as opposed to a military officer
- a writer of prose as opposed to a poet
- in the NT, an unlearned, illiterate, man as opposed to the learned and educated: one who is unskilled in any art