Apeiros means “unskilful” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H552 — umnam in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G552 ἄπειρος (apeiros) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. apeiros (ap'-ei-ros) adj. 1. inexperienced, i.e. ignorant [from G1 (as a negative particle) and G3984] It has 5 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include unskilful. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
apeiros (ap'-ei-ros) adj. 1. inexperienced, i.e. ignorant [from G1 (as a negative particle) and G3984] KJV: unskilful Root(s): G1, G3984
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G552. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
unacquainted
Usage: ἄπειρος, -ον (ἀ- neg., πεῖρα, trial), [in LXX: Num.14:23, Zec.11:15 (אֱוִלִי) Jer.2:6 (עֲרָבָה) * ;] without experience of: with genitive of thing(s), Heb.5:13 (MM, VGT, see word).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render apeiros, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G552 (ἄπειρος) appears 4 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
surely they shall not see the land, which I swore to their fathers; but their children which are with me here, as many as know not good or evil, every inexperienced youth, to them will I give the land; but none who have provoked me shall see it.
And they said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land which no man at all went through, and no man dwelt there?
And the Lord said to me, Take yet to thee shepherd’s implements belonging to an unskillful shepherd.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
For health he calleth upon that which is weak: For life prayeth to that which is dead: For aid humbly beseecheth that which hath least means to help: And for a good journey he asketh of that which cannot set a foot forward:
First 5 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G552.
surely they shall not see the land, which I swore to their fathers; but their children which are with me here, as many as know not good or evil, every inexperienced youth, to them will I give the land; but none who have provoked me shall see it.
And they said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land which no man at all went through, and no man dwelt there?
And the Lord said to me, Take yet to thee shepherd’s implements belonging to an unskillful shepherd.
For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
For health he calleth upon that which is weak: For life prayeth to that which is dead: For aid humbly beseecheth that which hath least means to help: And for a good journey he asketh of that which cannot set a foot forward:
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G552, grouped by book.
Apeiros (Strong's G552) is a Greek word most simply glossed "unskilful". apeiros (ap'-ei-ros) adj. 1. inexperienced, i.e. ignorant [from G1 (as a negative particle) and G3984]
This page currently indexes 5 linked usages for Strong's G552 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G552 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as unskilful. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G552, with linked reader references where each row is available.