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Old & New Testament Greek Lexical DictionaryGreek Lexicon

Strong's #2686 - κατασοφίζομαι

Transliteration

katasophízomai

Phonetics

kat-as-of-id'-zom-ahee

Root Word (Etymology)

middle voice from (G2596) and (G4679)

Parts of Speech

Verb

TDNT

None

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's

to circumvent by artifice or fraud, conquer by subtle devices
to outwit
overreach
to deal craftily with

Hebrew Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 2450 ‑ חָכָם (khaw‑kawm');

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

KJV (1)

Acts 1

NAS (3)

Acts 3

HCS (1)

Acts 1

BSB (1)

Acts 1

ESV (1)

Acts 1

WEB (1)

Acts 1

KJV (1)

subtilly 1

NAS (3)

advantage 1

shrewd 1

took 1

HCS (1)

dealt deceitfully with 1

BSB (1)

exploited 1

ESV (1)

dealt shrewdly 1

WEB (1)

took advantage 1

RAH

V-AMS1P 1

ANT

V-ADP-NSM 1

BEZ

V-ADP-NSM 1

BGB

V-APM-NMS 1

BMT

V-ADP-NSM 1

BYZ

V-ADP-NSM 1

ELZ

V-ADP-NSM 1

NA26

V-AMPNSM 1

SBL

V-AMPNSM 1

SCV

V-ADP-NSM 1

STV

V-ADP-NSM 1

TIS

V-ADP-NSM 1

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

κατασοφ-ίζομαι,

1. outwit by sophisms or fallacies, c. acc. pers., LXX Exodus 1:10, Luc. DDeor. 1.1, etc.; ταῖς εὑρησιλογίαις κ. τὴν δύναμιν τῆς πεπρωμένης D.S. 17.116; τὸν νόμον διὰ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ κακουργίας κ. Just. Nov. 72.5: c. gen., Ael.in Ar.Byz. Epit. 58.6: — also as Pass., to be outwitted, Plu. 2.80c, Alex.Aphr. in SE 43.22, Luc. DDeor. 16.2, Longin. 17.1.

2. κ. τι περί τινων evade by quibbling, CIG (add.)4224d10 (Anticragus).

3. falsify, J. AJ 8.15.5.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

κατασοφίζομαι: 1 aorist participle κατασοφισάμενος; (σοφίζω); deponent middle, in secular authors sometimes also passive; "to circumvent by artifice or fraud, conquer by subtle devices; to outwit, overreach; to deal craftily with": τινα, Acts 7:19 from Exodus 1:10. (Judith 5:11 Judith 10:19; Diodorus, Philo, Josephus, Lucian, others.)

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

† κατα -σοφίζομαι ,

[in LXX: Exodus 1:10 (H2450 hith.), Judith 5:11; Judith 10:19 *;]

to deal craftily with, outwit: Acts 7:19 (LXX) †

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

For this NT ἅπ. εἰρ. (Acts 7:19 from LXX Exodus 1:10), see Anz Subsidia, p. 366.

List of Word Forms

κατασοφισαμενος κατασοφισάμενος κατασοφισώμεθα κατασπά κατασπαρήσονται κατασπάσαι κατασπάσω κατασπαταλά κατασπαταλώντες κατασπερείς κατασπεύσαί κατασπεύσατε κατάσπευσον κατασπουδασθώ κατέσπασα κατέσπασαν κατέσπασε κατέσπασεν κατεσπάσθη κατεσπασμένοις κατέσπευδον κατέσπευσαν κατέσπευσε κατέσπευσεν katasophisamenos katasophisámenos