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Greek verb · G2686

κατασοφίζομαι

katasophizomaikat-as-of-id'-zom-ahee

be cunning

1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: katasophízomai

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2686is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 1
    spelling

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G2686

to be crafty against, i.e. circumvent

The King James renders it: deal subtilly with.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

katasophizomai is rendered "be cunning". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.

  • One of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 7:19He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

The first use

He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

Acts 7:19κατασοφισάμενος

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.

The other 26 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • having dealt treacherously with1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

καταργέωkatargeoto abateUses27
καταλείπωkataleipoto leave behindUses23
καταλύωkatalyoto destroy/lodgeUses17
κατακρίνωkatakrinoto condemnUses15
κατανοέωkatanoeoto observeUses14
καταντάωkatantaoto come toUses13
καταρτίζωkatartizoto completeUses13
καταλαμβάνωkatalambanoto graspUses13
κατασκευάζωkataskeuazoto prepareUses11
κατάπαυσιςkatapausisrestUses9
καταφρονέωkataphroneoto despiseUses9
καταπίνωkatapinoto swallowUses7

and 73 more on the stem.

All 1, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

1 spelling and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • κατασοφισάμενος1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · aorist middle form, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-ADP-NSM

Acts

one use
  • He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

    Acts 7:19

    • κατασοφισάμενοςkatasophisamenosverb · aorist middle form, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having dealt treacherously with

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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