Agnoeo describes lacking knowledge or understanding of a matter, sometimes being unknown or disregarded by others.

The verb most often marks a lack of knowledge or understanding about a stated matter, whether readers are to be informed, people fail to grasp a saying, or persons act without knowledge. In a smaller passive use, it describes being unknown or, in one clause, being ignored.

1. Lacking knowledge or understanding · dominant

   Present active forms introduce matters readers are not to lack knowledge about: ancestral events in 1 Corinthians 10:1 and those who are asleep in 1 Thessalonians 4:13. The verb also marks failure to understand a saying in Luke 9:45, ignorance of God's righteousness in Romans 10:3, and unknowing action by Jerusalem's residents and rulers in Acts 13:27; in 2 Corinthians 2:11 the APB renders the clause "we are not ignorant of his thoughts."

   1 Corinthians 10:11 Thessalonians 4:132 Corinthians 2:11Acts 13:27Luke 9:45Romans 10:3
2. Being unknown or ignored · occasional

   Present passive participles describe persons as "unknown" in 2 Corinthians 6:9 and Galatians 1:22. In 1 Corinthians 14:38, the APB renders the paired clause, "if anyone is ignorant, he is ignored," placing ignorance alongside being disregarded.

   2 Corinthians 6:9Galatians 1:221 Corinthians 14:38

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the active use with "ignorant," "unaware," "did not understand," and "without knowing," while passive contexts appear as "unknown" and "ignored." These renderings reflect each verse's clause rather than fixed English equivalents.