Original Word: δυσνόητος, ον
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: dusnoétos
Phonetic Spelling: (doos-no'-ay-tos)
Short Definition: hard to understand
Definition: hard to understand.

1425 dysnóētos (an adjective, derived from 1418 /dys-, "difficult" and noētos, "understanding," see 3539 /noiéō) – properly, hard-to-understand; difficult to grasp; hard to mentally process, i.e. what is intellectually difficult to capture the true sense of (used only in 2 Pet 3:16).

2 Pet 3:16: "As also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand (1425 /dysnóētos), which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction" (NASU).

STRONGS NT 1425: δυσνόητος

δυσνόητος, δυσνοητον (νοέω, hard to be understood: 2 Peter 3:16. (χρησμός, Lucian, Alex. 54; (Diogenes Laërtius 9, 13 δυσνοητον τέ καί δυσεξηγητον; (Aristotle, plant. 1, 1, p. 816{a}, 3).)

STRONGS NT 1425a: δυσφημέωδυσφημέω, δυσφήμω: (present passive δυσφημοῦμαι); (δύσφημος); to use ill words, defame; passive robe defamed, 1 Corinthians 4:13 T WH Tr marginal reading (1 Macc. 7:41; in Greek writings from Aeschylus Agam. 1078 down.)

hard to understand

From dus- and a derivative of noieo; difficult of perception -- hard to be understood.

see GREEK dus-

see GREEK noieo

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