- φιλοσοφία
- love of knowledge and wisdom, pursuit thereof, speculation, study
- φιλοσοφία
- love of wisdom, philosophy
- love of wisdom, philosophy, in the NT of traditional Jewish theology.
- φιλοσοφία
- philosophy
- G:N-F
- Φιλο-σοφία, -ας, ἡ
(< φιλόσοφος), [in LXX:* ;]Refs
4Ma.1:1 Mac 5:10 Mac 5:22 Mac 7:9 Mac 7:21
the love and pursuit of wisdom; hence, philosophy, investigation of truth and nature: of the so-called philosophy of false teachers, Col.2:8 (see Lft., ICC, in l).†
(AS)
1) love of wisdom
1a) used either of zeal for or skill in any art or science, any branch of knowledge. Used once in the NT of the theology, or rather theosophy, of certain Jewish Christian ascetics, which busied itself with refined and speculative enquiries into the nature and classes of angels, into the ritual of the Mosaic law and the regulations of Jewish tradition respecting practical life
1a) used either of zeal for or skill in any art or science, any branch of knowledge. Used once in the NT of the theology, or rather theosophy, of certain Jewish Christian ascetics, which busied itself with refined and speculative enquiries into the nature and classes of angels, into the ritual of the Mosaic law and the regulations of Jewish tradition respecting practical life
φιλοσοφία
philosophia
fil-os-of-ee'-ah
From G5386; “philosophy” , that is, (specifically) Jewish sophistry
KJV Usage: philosophy.