Science

New Testament

Vine's Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words

Definition

1gnosisG1108

is translated "science" in the AV of 1Ti 6:20; the word simply means "knowledge" (RV), where the reference is to the teaching of the Gnostics (lit., "the knowers") "falsely called knowledge." Science in the modern sense of the word, viz., the investigation, discovery, and classification of secondary laws, is unknown in Scripture. See KNOW, C, No. 1.