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Lexicon :: Strong's G4680 - sophos

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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 21 times in 20 verses in 'Ecc' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:14 - The wise man’s eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I know that the fate of one becomes the fate of all of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:16 - For there is no remembrance of the wise man along with the fool forever, inasmuch as in the coming days all will be forgotten. And how the wise man dies with the fool!

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:19 - And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a man of simpleminded folly? Yet he will have [fn]power over all the fruit of my labor for which I have labored and for which I have acted wisely under the sun. This too is vanity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:13 -

A poor yet wise lad is better than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receive [fn]warning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:8 - For what advantage does the wise man have over the fool? What advantage does the afflicted man have, knowing how to walk before the living?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:4

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,

While the heart of fools is in the house of gladness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:5

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Better to listen to the rebuke of a wise man

Than for one to listen to the song of fools.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:7

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For oppression gives a wise man over to madness,

And a bribe [fn]destroys the heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:19 -

Wisdom strengthens a wise man more than ten men with power who are in a city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:1

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Who is like the wise man and who knows the interpretation of a matter? A man’s wisdom illumines his face and causes his stern face to [fn]beam.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:5 -

He who keeps a royal command experiences no evil thing, for a wise heart knows the proper time and custom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:17 - and I saw every work of God, I concluded that man cannot find out the work which has been done under the sun. Even though man should seek laboriously, he will not find it out; and though the wise man should say, “I know,” he cannot find it out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:1 -

For I have given all this to my heart and explain [fn]it that righteous men, wise men, and their service are in the hand of God. Man does not know whether it will be love or hatred; anything may be before him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:11 -

I again saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift and the battle is not to the mighty, and neither is bread to the wise nor riches to the discerning nor favor to men who know; for time and misfortune overtake them all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:15 - But there was found in it a poor wise man, and he provided a way of escape for the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:17 - The words of the wise heard in restfulness are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:2 - A wise man’s heart directs him toward the right, but the foolish man’s heart directs him toward the left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:12 - Words from the mouth of a wise man are gracious, but the lips of a fool swallow him up;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:9 -

In addition to being a wise man, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge; and he pondered, searched out, and [fn]arranged many proverbs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:11

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The words of wise men are like goads, and masters of these collections are like [fn]well-driven nails; they are given by one Shepherd.

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