ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΩΝ, φιλοσοφων
PHILOSOPHŌN, philosophōn
Sounds Like: fee-lo-SO-fone
Translations: of philosophers, to philosophers, philosophers, a philosopher
From the root: ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to those who love wisdom or are engaged in the pursuit of knowledge, commonly translated as 'philosophers'. It is a compound word derived from 'φίλος' (philos), meaning 'loving' or 'dear', and 'σοφία' (sophia), meaning 'wisdom'. The form 'ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΩΝ' is typically used to indicate possession (of philosophers) or as an indirect object (to philosophers), depending on the context.
Inflection: Plural, Genitive, Masculine
Strong’s number: G5386 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:235
Clement of Alexandria
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Against Apion
Justin Martyr
- Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:9
Mathetes
- Letter to Diognetus — 8:2
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 4 Maccabees — 7:21
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Acts — 17:18
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΣ.
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.
- ΦΙΛΙΣΟΦΩ — philosopher, a philosopher, philosophical, (to) a philosopher, (to) the philosopher, (to) philosophical
- ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΕ — O philosopher, philosopher
- ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΙ — philosophers
- ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΙΣ — to philosophers, for philosophers
- ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΝ — philosophical, a philosopher, a scholar
- ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΣ — philosopher, a philosopher
- ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΥ — of a philosopher, a philosopher
- ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΥΣ — philosophers
- ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΩΤΑΤΟ — most philosophical, most learned, most wise
- ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΩΤΑΤΟΝ — most philosophical, very philosophical, a most philosophical thing, the most philosophical
- ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΩΤΕΡΑΝ — more philosophical, a more philosophical, wiser, a wiser
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