Strong G4680σοφός
wise
- Transliteration
- sophos
- Pronunciation
- sof-os'
- Morphology
- Greek Adjective OR Greek Adverb
Definition
Akin to σαφής saphēs (clear);
wise (in a most general application): - wise. Compare G5429 .
wise (in a most general application): - wise. Compare G5429 .
Detailed definition
σοφός, -ή, -όν
[in LXX chiefly for חָכָם;]
skilled, clever, wise, whether in handicraft, the affairs of life, the sciences or learning: Rom.16:19, 1Co.3:10; of the learned, Rom.1:14, 22, 1Co.1:19-20 1:26-27 3:18-20; of Jewish teachers, Mat.11:25, Luk.10:21; Christian, Mat.23:34; of those endowed with practical wisdom, 1Co.6:5, Eph.5:15, Jas.3:13; of God, Rom.16:27; compar., τ. μωρὸν τ. θεοῦ σοφώτερον, 1Co.1:25.†
SYN.: συνετός, φρόνιμος (see: σοφία, SYN.) (AS)
[in LXX chiefly for חָכָם;]
skilled, clever, wise, whether in handicraft, the affairs of life, the sciences or learning: Rom.16:19, 1Co.3:10; of the learned, Rom.1:14, 22, 1Co.1:19-20 1:26-27 3:18-20; of Jewish teachers, Mat.11:25, Luk.10:21; Christian, Mat.23:34; of those endowed with practical wisdom, 1Co.6:5, Eph.5:15, Jas.3:13; of God, Rom.16:27; compar., τ. μωρὸν τ. θεοῦ σοφώτερον, 1Co.1:25.†
SYN.: συνετός, φρόνιμος (see: σοφία, SYN.) (AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4680 appears in 21 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- wise17
- man3
- wiser1
First verses
- Matthew 11:25At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
- Matthew 23:34Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
- Luke 10:21In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
- Romans 1:14I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
- Romans 1:22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
- Romans 16:19For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.
- Romans 16:27To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen. Written to the Romans from Corinthus, and sent by Phebe servant of the church at Cenchrea.
- 1 Corinthians 1:19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
- 1 Corinthians 1:20Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
- 1 Corinthians 1:25Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
- 1 Corinthians 1:26For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
- 1 Corinthians 1:27But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
- 1 Corinthians 3:10According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
- 1 Corinthians 3:18Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
- 1 Corinthians 3:19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
- 1 Corinthians 3:20And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
- 1 Corinthians 6:5I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
- Ephesians 5:15See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
- 1 Timothy 1:17Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
- James 3:13Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
σοφός, ή, όν,
skilled in any handicraft or art, clever, ἁρματηλάτας σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.115, compare “N.” 7.17; κυβερνήτης 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 770; μάντις [prev. author] “Th.” 382; οἰωνοθέτας 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 484 (Lyric poetry))]; of a sculptor, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 372)]; even of hedgers and ditchers, [Refs (Margites “fragment” 2)]; but in this sense mostly of poets and musicians, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.9, “P.” 1.42, 3.113)]; ἐν κιθάρᾳ σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1238 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 896 (Lyric poetry), etc.)]; τὴν τέχνην -ώτερος[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 766; περί τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 696c)]; γλώσσῃ σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 88.10; σοφὸς ὁ πολλὰ εἰδὼς φυᾷ, μαθόντες δὲ λάβροι 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.86.)]
2 clever in practical matters, wise, prudent, ὁ χρήσιμ᾽ εἰδώς, οὐχ ὁ πόλλ᾽ εἰδώς, σ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 390)]; especially statesmanlike, in which sense the seven Sages were so called, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Dicaearchus Geographus cited in 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 1.40)]: hence, shrewd, worldly-wise, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 120, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 2.12, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.85; σ. ἄνδρες εἰσὶ Θεσσαλοὶ [prev. author] 7.130; σ. παλαιστὴς.., ἀλλὰ χαἱ χαἱ σοφαὶ γνῶμαι.. ἐμποδίζονται 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 431, compare 440, “Aj.” 1374)]; πολλὰ σ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1295)]; ἃ δεῖ σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 655f; τῶν λεγομένων πονηρῶν μέν, σοφῶν δέ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 519a: also σοφαὶ πραπίδες 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 11(10).10; φύσις 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1282)]: even of animals, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 3.7 (_comparative_), 6.13 (_superlative_))]; σ. πειθώ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.39 codices (σοφοῖς Bgk.))]; εὐβουλία [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1038: τὸ σ)]. my little trick, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 502d)]; your clever notion, [Refs ([prev. author] “Euthd.” 293d)]; τἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ σοφά, δάκρυα my tears, all the resources that I have, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1214)]; εἰ δίκαια, τῶν σοφῶν κρείσσω τάδε better than all craft, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1246)]; σοφόν [ἐστι] with infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 228.)]
2.b more generally, learned, wise, τὸ μὲν σ. [αὐτὸν] καλεῖν ἔμοιγε μέγα εἶναι δοκεῖ καὶ θεῷ μόνῳ πρέπειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 278d, compare 279c, “Prt.” 329e, “Ap.” 21a (_comparative_), 22c (_superlative_); opposed to ἀμαθής, [prev. work] 25d (_comparative_))]; of sophists,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 20a, “Prt.” 309d, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.21, etc.)]; universally and ideally wise, ὁ σ., τουτέστιν ὁ τὴν τοῦ ἀληθοῦς ἐπιστήμην ἔχων [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 2.42, compare 3.167, +others: later σοφώτατος)] as a title, especially of lawyers or professors, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (“PIand.” 16.4 (5th-6th c.AD), “POxy.” 126.6 (6th c.AD).)]
3 subtle, ingenious, opposed to ἀμαθής [Refs 5th c.BC+ ((1445) and σαφής, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1434 (_adverb_))]; σοφόν τοι τὸ σαφές, οὐ τὸ μὴ σαφές [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 397)]; τὸ σοφὸν οὐ σοφία wisdom overmuch is no wisdom, [Refs ([prev. author] “Ba.” 395 (Lyric poetry))]; τί οὖν ἦν τοῦτ; οὐδὲν ποικίλον οὐδὲ σοφόν nothing curious or recondite, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.37.)]—For the senses of ς., see [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1141a10.—mostly _absolutely_, but with _accusative_ _of things_, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 655, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 17c, etc.)]; also ἐν οἰωνοῖς, κιθάρᾳ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 662, 1238 (Lyric poetry); εἴς τι [prev. author] “fragment” 162 (_superlative_))]; περί τι or τινος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 203a, “Ap.” 19c: rarely with _genitive_, σοφὸς κακῶν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 453: also with)]infinitive, πῶς δῆτ᾽ ἔγωγ᾽ ἂν.. Διὸς γενοίμην εὖ φρονεῖν σοφώτερο; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 524.7.)]
II of things, cleverly devised, wise, νόμος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.196 (_superlative_))]; νοήματα, ἔπεα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.72 (_superlative_), “P.” 4.138, etc.; γνῶμαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1091; νοῦς [prev. author] “El.” 1016)]; πάντα προσφέρων σοφά all wise sayings, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “fragment” 763, compare “Ph.” 1245; χρόνου τε διατριβὰς σοφωτάτας ἐφηῦρε [prev. author] “fragment” 479; σοφώτερ᾽ ἢ κατ᾽ ἄνδρα συμβαλεῖν ἔπη 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 675; σ. φυγή [prev. author] “Supp.” 151)]; οὐδὲν σοφὸν εἶναι shows no great wisdom, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1137a10.)]
III adverb σοφῶς cleverly, wisely, etc., first (?) in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus (?) “fragment” 1122; then in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 699, “Ba.” 1271 codices, “Heracl.” 558, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1434, etc.)]: comparative -ώτερον[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1007)]: superlative -ώτατα[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Hel.” 1528, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 522:)] —σοφῶς, as an exclamation of applause, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.45f, 1st c.AD: Martialis Epigrammaticus Latinus 3.46.8, etc.)] (Not in Epic dialect, except in Margites [prev. cited] and as ancient [Refs 8th c.BC+ (variant (12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 1023.14) in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.712)]; but see at {σοφία},{σοφίζομαι}.)
skilled in any handicraft or art, clever, ἁρματηλάτας σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.115, compare “N.” 7.17; κυβερνήτης 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 770; μάντις [prev. author] “Th.” 382; οἰωνοθέτας 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 484 (Lyric poetry))]; of a sculptor, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 372)]; even of hedgers and ditchers, [Refs (Margites “fragment” 2)]; but in this sense mostly of poets and musicians, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.9, “P.” 1.42, 3.113)]; ἐν κιθάρᾳ σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1238 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 896 (Lyric poetry), etc.)]; τὴν τέχνην -ώτερος[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 766; περί τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 696c)]; γλώσσῃ σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 88.10; σοφὸς ὁ πολλὰ εἰδὼς φυᾷ, μαθόντες δὲ λάβροι 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.86.)]
2 clever in practical matters, wise, prudent, ὁ χρήσιμ᾽ εἰδώς, οὐχ ὁ πόλλ᾽ εἰδώς, σ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 390)]; especially statesmanlike, in which sense the seven Sages were so called, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Dicaearchus Geographus cited in 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 1.40)]: hence, shrewd, worldly-wise, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 120, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 2.12, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.85; σ. ἄνδρες εἰσὶ Θεσσαλοὶ [prev. author] 7.130; σ. παλαιστὴς.., ἀλλὰ χαἱ χαἱ σοφαὶ γνῶμαι.. ἐμποδίζονται 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 431, compare 440, “Aj.” 1374)]; πολλὰ σ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1295)]; ἃ δεῖ σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 655f; τῶν λεγομένων πονηρῶν μέν, σοφῶν δέ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 519a: also σοφαὶ πραπίδες 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 11(10).10; φύσις 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1282)]: even of animals, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 3.7 (_comparative_), 6.13 (_superlative_))]; σ. πειθώ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.39 codices (σοφοῖς Bgk.))]; εὐβουλία [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1038: τὸ σ)]. my little trick, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 502d)]; your clever notion, [Refs ([prev. author] “Euthd.” 293d)]; τἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ σοφά, δάκρυα my tears, all the resources that I have, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1214)]; εἰ δίκαια, τῶν σοφῶν κρείσσω τάδε better than all craft, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1246)]; σοφόν [ἐστι] with infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 228.)]
2.b more generally, learned, wise, τὸ μὲν σ. [αὐτὸν] καλεῖν ἔμοιγε μέγα εἶναι δοκεῖ καὶ θεῷ μόνῳ πρέπειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 278d, compare 279c, “Prt.” 329e, “Ap.” 21a (_comparative_), 22c (_superlative_); opposed to ἀμαθής, [prev. work] 25d (_comparative_))]; of sophists,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 20a, “Prt.” 309d, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.21, etc.)]; universally and ideally wise, ὁ σ., τουτέστιν ὁ τὴν τοῦ ἀληθοῦς ἐπιστήμην ἔχων [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 2.42, compare 3.167, +others: later σοφώτατος)] as a title, especially of lawyers or professors, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (“PIand.” 16.4 (5th-6th c.AD), “POxy.” 126.6 (6th c.AD).)]
3 subtle, ingenious, opposed to ἀμαθής [Refs 5th c.BC+ ((1445) and σαφής, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1434 (_adverb_))]; σοφόν τοι τὸ σαφές, οὐ τὸ μὴ σαφές [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 397)]; τὸ σοφὸν οὐ σοφία wisdom overmuch is no wisdom, [Refs ([prev. author] “Ba.” 395 (Lyric poetry))]; τί οὖν ἦν τοῦτ; οὐδὲν ποικίλον οὐδὲ σοφόν nothing curious or recondite, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.37.)]—For the senses of ς., see [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1141a10.—mostly _absolutely_, but with _accusative_ _of things_, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 655, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 17c, etc.)]; also ἐν οἰωνοῖς, κιθάρᾳ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 662, 1238 (Lyric poetry); εἴς τι [prev. author] “fragment” 162 (_superlative_))]; περί τι or τινος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 203a, “Ap.” 19c: rarely with _genitive_, σοφὸς κακῶν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 453: also with)]infinitive, πῶς δῆτ᾽ ἔγωγ᾽ ἂν.. Διὸς γενοίμην εὖ φρονεῖν σοφώτερο; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 524.7.)]
II of things, cleverly devised, wise, νόμος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.196 (_superlative_))]; νοήματα, ἔπεα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.72 (_superlative_), “P.” 4.138, etc.; γνῶμαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1091; νοῦς [prev. author] “El.” 1016)]; πάντα προσφέρων σοφά all wise sayings, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “fragment” 763, compare “Ph.” 1245; χρόνου τε διατριβὰς σοφωτάτας ἐφηῦρε [prev. author] “fragment” 479; σοφώτερ᾽ ἢ κατ᾽ ἄνδρα συμβαλεῖν ἔπη 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 675; σ. φυγή [prev. author] “Supp.” 151)]; οὐδὲν σοφὸν εἶναι shows no great wisdom, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1137a10.)]
III adverb σοφῶς cleverly, wisely, etc., first (?) in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus (?) “fragment” 1122; then in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 699, “Ba.” 1271 codices, “Heracl.” 558, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1434, etc.)]: comparative -ώτερον[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1007)]: superlative -ώτατα[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Hel.” 1528, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 522:)] —σοφῶς, as an exclamation of applause, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.45f, 1st c.AD: Martialis Epigrammaticus Latinus 3.46.8, etc.)] (Not in Epic dialect, except in Margites [prev. cited] and as ancient [Refs 8th c.BC+ (variant (12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 1023.14) in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.712)]; but see at {σοφία},{σοφίζομαι}.)