"Οι γνώσεις της."
Translation:Her knowledge.
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The total knowledge someone has is in plural. So, it goes like: Δεν είχα γνώση της κατάστασης=i had no knowledge of the situation. Η χειρουργική απαιτεί γνώση κι εμπειρία=Surgery requires knowledge and experience. BUT Έχει πολλές γνώσεις= He has a lot of knowledge.
Agnostic is the one who doesn't know then. I love Greek as half of the words were borrowed to other languages and easy to remember through associations!
It's interesting that modern Gk can have the plural here. I had never thought of it before, but the ancient philosophers also could use the plural for general knowledge, as Aristotle does in Met. 981B καίτοι κυριώταταί γ' εἰσὶν αὗται τῶν καθ' ἕκαστα γνώσεις. The Septuagint translation sometimes uses plural because the Hebrew has plural, as at 1 Sam 2:3, θεὸς γνώσεων κύριος, but the plural would not have been jarring to Greek ears. Plato sometimes used the plural γνώσεις for general knowledge (αἱ γνώσεις πᾶσαι) and also epistemai. At Paul's 1 Cor 13:8, for the singular γνῶσις majority reading some manuscript read γνώσεις.
