Word Summary
katasophizomai: to deal craftily with
Original Word: κατασοφίζομαιTransliteration: katasophizomai
Phonetic Spelling: (kat-as-of-id'-zom-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to deal craftily with
Meaning: to deal craftily with
Strong's Concordance
be crafty against, circumvent
Middle voice from kata and sophizo; to be crafty against, i.e. Circumvent -- deal subtilly with.
see GREEK kata
see GREEK sophizo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2686: κατασοφίζομαικατασοφίζομαι: 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.)