ΣΟΦΟΣ, σοφος
SOPHOS, sophos
Sounds Like: SOH-foss
Translations: wise, a wise person, skillful, clever
From the root: ΣΟΦΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun
Explanation: This word describes someone who possesses wisdom, skill, or cleverness. It can be used as an adjective to modify a noun (e.g., 'a wise man') or as a substantive noun itself, meaning 'a wise person' or 'the wise one'. It often implies practical wisdom and understanding.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G4680 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:139
Barnabus
- Letter of Barnabas — 6:10
Clement of Rome
Codex Sinaiticus
- Deuteronomy — 4:6
- 4 Maccabees — 7:23
- Psalms — 106:43
- Proverbs — 1:5, 9:12, 10:1, 10:4, 10:8, 12:15, 13:20, 14:16, 15:20, 16:14, 19:20, 20:26, 21:11, 21:22, 23:19, 24:5, 25:12, 26:5, 27:11, 28:11, 29:9, 29:11
- Ecclesiastes — 2:16, 2:19, 4:13, 8:17, 12:9
- Job — 9:4, 15:2, 34:34
- Sirach — 1:8, 6:33, 6:34, 9:17, 10:1, 18:27, 20:5, 20:7, 20:13, 20:27, 33:2, 37:22, 37:23, 37:24, 37:26
- Isaiah — 31:2
- Jeremiah — 9:22
- 1 Corinthians — 1:20, 3:10, 3:18, 6:5
- James — 3:13
- Epistle of Barnabas — 6:10
Josephus' Against Apion
- Book One — 28:256
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Exodus — 35:9, 36:1, 36:8
- Deuteronomy — 4:6, 32:6
- 1 Samuel — 16:18
- 2 Samuel — 13:3, 14:20
- 1 Kings — 2:9, 2:46
- 1 Chronicles — 22:15
- 4 Maccabees — 7:23
- Psalms — 106:43
- Odes — 2:6, 3:10
- Proverbs — 1:5, 9:12, 10:1, 10:4, 10:8, 12:15, 13:17, 13:20, 14:16, 15:20, 16:14, 19:17, 20:20, 21:11, 21:22, 23:19, 24:5, 25:12, 26:5, 27:11, 28:11, 29:9, 29:11
- Ecclesiastes — 2:16, 2:19, 4:13, 8:17, 12:9
- Job — 9:4, 15:2, 34:34
- Sirach — 1:8, 6:33, 6:34, 9:17, 10:1, 18:27, 20:5, 20:7, 20:13, 20:27, 36:2, 37:22, 37:23, 37:24, 37:26
- Isaiah — 31:2
- Jeremiah — 9:23
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 5:11
- Hosea — 14:10
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΟΦΟΣ.
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.
- ΟΦΩΣ — wisely, skillfully, prudently
- ΣΟΦΑ — wise, clever, skillful, learned
- ΣΟΦΑΙ — wise, skillful, clever
- ΣΟΦΑΣ — wise, a wise one, wise women
- ΣΟΦΗ — wise, a wise (woman)
- ΣΟΦΗΝ — wise, a wise (woman/thing), clever, skillful
- ΣΟΦΗΣ — of a wise, of wise
- ΣΟΦΟ — wise, a wise person, skillful, clever, learned
- ΣΟΦΟΙ — wise, the wise, a wise person
- ΣΟΦΟΙΣ — to wise, to the wise, to a wise person, to a wise one, to the learned, to a learned person, to the skilled, to a skilled person
- ΣΟΦΟΝ — wise, a wise one, prudent, skillful
- ΣΟΦΟΥ — of a wise man, of the wise, of a sage, of the sage, of a learned person, of the learned
- ΣΟΦΟΥΟ — of wise, of a wise, of a learned, of a skillful
- ΣΟΦΟΥΣ — wise, clever, skilled, the wise, wise men, wise people
- ΣΟΦΩ — (to) a wise person, (to) the wise, (to) a wise man, (to) the wise man
- ΣΟΦΩΝ — of the wise, wise, a wise person
- ΣΟΦΩΣ — wisely, skillfully, prudently, cleverly
- ΣΟΦΩΤΑΤΗ — wisest, most wise, most clever, most skillful
- ΣΟΦΩΤΑΤΟΙ — wisest, most wise, very wise
- ΣΟΦΩΤΑΤΟΥΣ — wisest, most wise, most clever, most skilled
- ΣΟΦΩΤΑΤΩ — (to) the wisest, (to) a wisest
- ΣΟΦΩΤΑΤΩΝ — of the wisest, of the most wise
- ΣΟΦΩΤΕΡΑ — wiser, more wise, wiser things, more wise things
- ΣΟΦΩΤΕΡΟΝ — wiser, more wise, more intelligent, more skillful
- ΣΟΦΩΤΕΡΟΣ — wiser, more wise
- ΣΟΦΩΤΕΡΟΥΣ — wiser, more wise
- ΤΩΣΟΦΩ — to the wise, for the wise, to a wise one, for a wise one
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