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Lexicon :: Strong's G4680 - sophos

Aa
σοφός
Transliteration
sophos (Key)
Pronunciation
sof-os'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Akin to saphes (clear)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:465,1056

Strong’s Definitions

σοφός sophós, sof-os'; akin to σαφής saphḗs (clear); wise (in a most general application):—wise. Compare G5429.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 22x

The KJV translates Strong's G4680 in the following manner: wise (22x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 22x
The KJV translates Strong's G4680 in the following manner: wise (22x).

  1. wise

    1. skilled, expert: of artificers

    2. wise, skilled in letters, cultivated, learned

      1. of the Greek philosophers and orators

      2. of Jewish theologians

      3. of Christian teachers

    3. forming the best plans and using the best means for their execution

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
σοφός sophós, sof-os'; akin to σαφής saphḗs (clear); wise (in a most general application):—wise. Compare G5429.
STRONGS G4680:
σοφός, σοφή, σοφόν (akin to σαφής and to the Latinsapio, sapiens, sapor, 'to have a taste', etc.; Curtius, § 628; (Vanicek, p. 991)), the Sept. for חָכָם; (from Theognis, Pindar, Aeschylus down); wise, i. e.
a. skilled, expert: εἰς τί, Romans 16:19; of artificers (cf. Grimm, Exeg. Hdbch. on Sap. (Wisdom 7:21), p. 151): ἀρχιτέκτων, 1 Corinthians 3:10; Isaiah 3:3 (δημιουργός, of God, Xenophon, mem. 1, 4, 7).
b. wise, i. e. skilled in letters, cultivated, learned: Romans 1:14, 22; of the Greek philosophers (and orators, see σοφία, a.), 1 Corinthians 1:19f, 26; 1 Corinthians 3:18f,(20); of the Jewish theologians, Matthew 11:25; Luke 10:21; of Christian teachers, Matthew 23:34.
c. wise in a practical sense, i. e. one who in action is governed by piety and integrity: Ephesians 5:15; James 3:13; and accordingly is a suitable person to settle private quarrels, 1 Corinthians 6:5.
d. wise in a philosophic sense, forming the best plans and using the best means for their execution: so of God, Romans 16:27, and Rec. in 1 Timothy 1:17; Jude 1:25; σοφώτερον, contains more wisdom, is more sagaciously thought out, 1 Corinthians 1:25.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Isaiah
3:3
Matthew
11:25; 23:34
Luke
10:21
Romans
1:14; 1:22; 16:19; 16:27
1 Corinthians
1:19; 1:25; 1:26; 3:10; 3:18; 6:5
Ephesians
5:15
1 Timothy
1:17
James
3:13
Jude
1:25

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4680 matches the Greek σοφός (sophos),
which occurs 20 times in 19 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:25 - At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:34

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:34 - For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:21 - In that same hour he was full of joy in the Holy Spirit and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children: for so, O Father, it was pleasing in your eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 1:14 - I have a debt to Greeks and to the nations outside; to the wise and to those who have no learning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 1:22 - Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:19 - For all have knowledge of how you do what you are ordered. For this reason I have joy in you, but it is my desire that you may be wise in what is good, and without knowledge of evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:27 - To the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be the glory for ever. So be it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:19 - As it says in the holy Writings, I will put an end to the wisdom of the wise, and will put on one side the designs of those who have knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:20 - Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:25 - Because what seems foolish in God is wiser than men; and what seems feeble in God is stronger than men.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:26 - For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:27 - But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:10 - In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:18 - Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:19 - For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:20 - And again, The Lord has knowledge of the reasonings of the wise, that they are nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:5 - I say this to put you to shame. Is there not among you one wise man who may be able to give a decision between his brothers?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:15 - Take care then how you are living, not as unwise, but as wise;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:13 - Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.
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