ΣΟΦΙΣΤΗΣ, σοφιστης
SOPHISTĒS, sophistēs
Sounds Like: so-FISS-tays
Translations: sophist, a sophist, expert, master
From the root: ΣΟΦΙΣΤΗΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a sophist, an expert, or a master in a particular skill or art. In ancient Greece, sophists were often teachers of rhetoric and philosophy, sometimes associated with clever but deceptive arguments. It can also simply mean someone who is skilled or proficient in something.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G4680 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:1
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 17:29
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 3:3
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
- ΣΟΦΙΣΤΑΙΣ — to sophists, for sophists
- ΣΟΦΙΣΤΑΣ — sophist, a sophist, wise man, a wise man, expert, an expert
- ΣΟΦΙΣΤΗΝ — sophist, a sophist, expert, master, teacher
- ΣΟΦΙΣΤΙΚΟΣ — sophistic, sophistical, relating to a sophist, characteristic of a sophist
- ΣΟΦΙΣΤΩΝ — of sophists, of wise men, of experts
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