ΣΟΦΙΣΤΑΙΣ, σοφισταις
SOPHISTAIS, sophistais
Sounds Like: so-FIS-taiss
Translations: to sophists, for sophists
From the root: ΣΟΦΙΣΤΗΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a sophist, a wise man, or a teacher of wisdom. In ancient Greece, sophists were often itinerant teachers who taught rhetoric and other subjects, sometimes for a fee. The term could be used neutrally or with a negative connotation, implying someone who uses clever but deceptive arguments.
Inflection: Plural, Dative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G4680 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 17 — 6:155
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 34:9
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΟΦΙΣΤΗΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΣΟΦΙΣΤΑΙ — sophists, wise men, teachers, professors
- ΣΟΦΙΣΤΑΣ — sophist, a sophist, wise man, a wise man, expert, an expert
- ΣΟΦΙΣΤΗΝ — sophist, a sophist, expert, master, teacher
- ΣΟΦΙΣΤΗΣ — sophist, a sophist, expert, master
- ΣΟΦΙΣΤΙΚΟΣ — sophistic, sophistical, relating to a sophist, characteristic of a sophist
- ΣΟΦΙΣΤΩΝ — of sophists, of wise men, of experts
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