Senses
1. wise, skilled in judgment — Possessing wisdom, discernment, or practical skill — used substantively of 'wise men/people' and predicatively of individuals who are wise or act wisely. Covers singular, plural, and comparative forms across 20 NT occurrences (Mt 11:25; 23:34; Rom 1:14, 22; 16:19, 27; 1 Cor 1:19-20, 25-27; 3:10, 18-20; 6:5; Jas 3:13; Jude 1:25). Multilingual evidence is unified: Spanish 'sabio/sabios/más sabio' all derive from the same root; Hindi 'बुद्धिमान/बुद्धिमानों/अधिक बुद्धिमान' consistently denote wisdom; Arabic 'حَكيمٌ/حُكَماءُ/أَحْكَمُ' are standard singular, broken plural, and elative of the same root ح-ك-م; Korean '지혜로운/지혜롭다' share the same stem; Swahili 'mwenye hekima/wenye hekima/hekima zaidi' use the same noun 'hekima' throughout. The comparative 'wiser' (1 Cor 1:25) is a grammatical degree, not a separate lexical sense. 20×
AR["أَحْكَمُ","الحَكيمُ","الحُكَماءَ","الحُكَماءِ","الْحَكِيمِ","حَكيماً","حَكيمٌ","حَكيمٍ","حُكَماءَ","حُكَماءُ","حُكَمَاءَ","لِلْحُكَماءِ"]·ben["জ্ঞানী","জ্ঞানী,","জ্ঞানী-চেয়ে","জ্ঞানী?","জ্ঞানী।","জ্ঞানীদের","জ্ঞানীদের,","জ্ঞানীদের;"]·DE["weise"]·EN["to-wise","wise","wise-men","wiser"]·FR["sage"]·heb["חֲכָמִים","חֲכָמָה-יוֹתֵר","חָכָם"]·HI["अधिक-बुद्धिमान","बुदधि-मअनोन-से","बुदधिमअन","बुद्धिमान","बुद्धिमानों","बुद्धिमानों-की","बुद्धिमानों-के","बुद्धिमानों-को"]·ID["bijak","bijak,","bijaksana","bijaksana,","lebih-bijak","orang-bijak","orang-bijak,","yang-bijak"]·IT["saggio","sophon","sophous"]·jav["kang-wicaksana?","langkung-wicaksana","para-wicaksana","para-wicaksana,","tiyang-wicaksana","tiyang-wicaksana,","wicaksana","wicaksana,","wicaksana.","wicaksana;","wong-wicaksana"]·KO["더-지혜롭다","지혜로운","지혜로운-자","지혜로운-자가","지혜로운-자들","지혜로운-자들-을","지혜로운-자들-의","지혜로운-자들과","지혜로운-자들에게","지혜로운-자들을","지혜로운-자와","지혜롭고","지혜롭다","지혜롭다고"]·PT["a-sábios","mais-sábio","sábio","sábios","sábios,"]·RU["быть","мудр","мудрее","мудрецов","мудрого,","мудрому","мудрые","мудрые,","мудрый","мудрым","мудрыми","мудрых"]·ES["a-sabios","más-sabio","sabio","sabio?","sabios"]·SW["mjenzi","mwenye-hekima","mwenye-hekima,","mwenye-hekima.","mwenye-hekima?","una-hekima-zaidi-kuliko","waandishi","wenye-hekima","wenye-hekima,","wenye-hekima;"]·TR["akıllılar","bilge","bilgeler","bilgelerden","bilgelere","göre-","insanlardan-","içinde-","mimar","o-","ve-","zayıfları-"]·urd["حکیم","حکیموں-کو","حکیموں-کی","حکیموں-کے","دانا","داناؤں","داناوں","دانشمند","دانشمندوں-کا","زیادہ-حکیم-ہے","عقلمند"]
Matt 11:25, Matt 23:34, Luke 10:21, Rom 1:14, Rom 1:22, Rom 16:19, Rom 16:27, 1 Cor 1:19, 1 Cor 1:20, 1 Cor 1:25, 1 Cor 1:26, 1 Cor 1:27 (+8 more)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
σοφός, ή, όν, skilled in any handicraft or art, clever, ἁρματηλάτας σ. Refs 5th c.BC+; of a sculptor, Refs 5th c.BC+; even of hedgers and ditchers, Refs; but in this sense mostly of poets and musicians, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν κιθάρᾳ σ. Refs 5th c.BC+; τὴν τέχνην -ώτεροςRefs 5th c.BC+; γλώσσῃ σ. Refs 5th c.BC+ __2 clever in practical matters, wise, prudent, ὁ χρήσιμ᾽ εἰδώς, οὐχ ὁ πόλλ᾽ εἰδώς, σ. Refs…