filosofos

Strong’sG5386

a philosopher

stem filosof-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

φιλό-σοφος, -ου, ὁ

[in LXX: Da LXX 1:20 (אַשָּׁף), IV Mac 1:1 5:35 7:7 *;]

a philosopher: Ac 17:18.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5386 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidfil-os'-of-os

fond of wise things, i.e. a "philosopher"

Fromfrom G5384 and G4680;

King Jamesphilosopher.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

φῐλόσοφος, ὁ,
lover of wisdom; Pythagoras called himself φιλόσοφος, not σοφός, Cic Refs 5th c.BC+ {φιλοσπῆλυγξ}; φ. φύσει, τὴν φύσιν, Refs; φ. τῇ ψυχῇ, opposed to φιλόπονος τῷ σώματι, Refs 5th c.BC+: used of all men of education and learning, joined with φιλομαθής and φιλόλογος, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to σοφιστής, Refs 5th c.BC+; later, academician, of the members of the Museum at Alexandria, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 philosopher, i. e. one who speculates on truth and reality, οἱ ἀληθινοὶ φ., defined as οἱ τῆς ἀληθείας φιλοθεάμονες, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὁ φιλόσοφος, of Aristotle, Refs 1st c.AD+; ὁ σκηνικὸς φ., of Euripides, Refs 2nd c.AD+; as the butt of Comedy texts, Refs 4th c.BC+
II as adjective, loving knowledge, philosophic, ἄνδρες Refs 5th c.BC+; διάνοιαRefs 5th c.BC+
II.2 of arguments, sciences, etc., scientific, philosophic, λόγοι Refs 5th c.BC+; λόγοι -ώτεροι, of instructive speeches, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ φ., opposed to τὸ θυμοειδές, as an element of the soul, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 ingenious, Refs 5th c.BC+
III adverb -φως, διακεῖσθαι πρός τι Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to ῥητορικῶς, Refs 1st c.BC+.; comparative -ωτέρωςRefs 4th c.BC+; -ώτερον Refs 5th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

philosophers1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	filosofos	filosofois
object accusative	filosofon	filosofoin
direct address vocative	filosofor	filosofoir
of, belonging to genitive	filosofou	filosofoiu1×φιλοσόφων
to, for dative	filosofo	filosofoi

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

filosofstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

filosofo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

filosofoiu“philosophers”of, belonging togenitive plural1×

Acts 17:18… de kai toiu Epikoureioiu kai Stoikoiu filosofoiu sumballale auto, kai tinois legale; Tinem …Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also began to debate with him …