φιλόσοφος
philósophos · G5386 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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philosopher, scholar
A person of professional or semi-professional status regarded as having particular capacity or competence in understanding the meaning or significance of human experience
ExamplesActs 17:18 And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers as well were conversing with him. Some were saying, “What could this scavenger of tidbits want to say?” Others, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.
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
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Στωϊκόςone who adheres to Stoic philosophy 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- συμβάλλωto reflect on 1
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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Contrasting words 2 words
- ἀμαθής amathḗs · G261 · uneducated, unlearned, ignorant
- φιλόσοφος denotes one who loves wisdom/is a philosopher; ἀμαθής denotes one who is ignorant or without learning, the opposite of a lover of wisdom
- ἰδιώτης idiṓtēs · G2399 · layman, ordinary person, amateur
- φιλόσοφος is one trained in philosophy and wisdom; ἰδιώτης denotes an untrained or unskilled person in contrast to the learned
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Philosopher, scholar32.39
- Acts 17:18 describes “some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers” conversing with Paul in Athens.
Word family 37 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon φιλοσοφου, ὁ (φίλος and σοφός), a philosopher, one given to the pursuit of wisdom or…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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