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Strong's #2686 - κατασοφίζομαι
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- to circumvent by artifice or fraud, conquer by subtle devices
- to outwit
- overreach
- to deal craftily with
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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.
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.)
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† κατα -σοφίζομαι ,
[in LXX: Exodus 1:10 (H2450 hith.), Judith 5:11; Judith 10:19 *;]
to deal craftily with, outwit: Acts 7:19 (LXX) †
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For this NT ἅπ. εἰρ. (Acts 7:19 from LXX Exodus 1:10), see Anz Subsidia, p. 366.
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