ΣΟΦΙΣΤΩΝ, σοφιστων
SOPHISTŌN, sophistōn
Sounds Like: so-fis-TON
Translations: of sophists, of wise men, of experts
From the root: ΣΟΦΙΣΤΗΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word is the genitive plural form of the noun 'sophist'. A sophist was originally a wise man or an expert in a particular skill or art. In ancient Greece, the term later came to refer specifically to a class of itinerant teachers who taught rhetoric and other subjects, often for payment. They were sometimes viewed with suspicion for their relativistic views and their focus on persuasion over truth. In the provided context, it refers to a group of wise men or experts, possibly interpreters of dreams or omens.
Inflection: Plural, Genitive, Masculine
Strong’s number: G4680 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 34:10
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
- ΣΟΦΙΣΤΑΙΣ — to sophists, for sophists
- 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
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