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συζητητής

syzētētḗs · G4804 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. debater, disputer

    (Derivative of συζητέω ‘to debate, to dispute,’) A person who is skilled in or likely to be involved in expressing strong differences of opinion

    Examples

    1 Corinthians 1:20 Where is the wise person? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made foolish the wisdom of the world?

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Debater, disputer33.441
The noun names one skilled in argumentative reasoning. Paul asks, “Where is the wise person? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age?” (1 Corinthians 1:20).
Word family 9 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ζητέω zētéō · G2212 · to try to learn where something is, to look for, to try to find · 117×ἐπιζητέω epizētéō · G1934 · to seek, to search, to try to find out by looking for · 13×συζητέω syzētéō · G4802 · to dispute, dispute, to talk with · 10×ζήτησις zḗtēsis · G2214 · searching out, seeking information, investigation · 8×ἐκζητέω ekzētéō · G1567 · to make a careful search, to seek diligently to learn, to make an examination · 7×ζήτημα zḗtēma · G2213 · dispute · 5×ἀναζητέω anazētéō · G327 · to seek, to search, to try to find out by looking for · 3×συζητητήςsyzētētḗs · G4804συζήτησις syzḗtēsis · G4803 · mutual questioning, i.e. discussion · 0×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (L T Tr WH συνζητητης (cf. σύν, II. at the end)), συζητητου, ὁ (συζητέω), a disputer, i.…
(L T Tr WH συνζητητης (cf. σύν, II. at the end)), συζητητου, ὁ (συζητέω), a disputer, i. e. a learned disputant, sophist: 1 Cor 1:20. (Ignatius ad Eph. 18 [ET] (quotation).)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Dispute, Debate1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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