σοφία (sophia)
Short definition (LSJ): skill in matters of common life. sound judgement, intelligence, practical wisdom, etc., such as was attributed to the seven sages, like φρόνησις,
Full entry: Lexicon.
281 occurrences of this form in 84 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- Sirach
- Protagoras
- Wisdom of Solomon
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Euthydemus
- Republic
- The Six Enneads: Enneads V-VI
- Metaphysics
- Hippias Major
- The Six Enneads: Enneads I-II
- Memorabilia
- Life of Pythagoras
- Meno
- Theages
- On Fugitives
- On the Allegories of the Sacred Laws
- On the Meeting for the sake of receiving Instructions
- Apology
- Theaetetus
- Epinomis
- Symposium
- Against Apion, Book 2
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 8
- On the Migration of Abraham
- On the doctrine that Dreams are sent from God, Books 1-2
- On the question, Who is the Heir of Divine Things
- Cratylus
- Laches
- Antidosis
- Against Apion, Book 1
- About the Planting of Noah
- On Drunkenness
- On Rewards and Punishments
- On the Cherubim; and on the Flaming Sword; and on the First-Born Child of Man, Cain
- On the Life of the Wise Man made perfect by Instruction; or, on the Unwritten Law, that is to say, on Abraham
- On the Posterity of Cain
- On the question why certain Names in the Holy Scriptures are changed
- Alcibiades I
- Euthyphro
- Hippias Minor
- Laws
- Minos
- Philebus
- The Six Enneads: Enneads III-IV
- Histories
- Life of Pythagoras
- Symposium
- 4 Maccabees
- Birds
- Frogs
- Library of History
- Heracles
- Iphigenia in Aulis
- Medea
- Orestes
- The Bacchae
- On the Mysteries
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 1
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 10
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 12
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 17
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 19
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 6
- On Three Virtues, that is to say, on Courage, Humanity, and Repentance
- On the Confusion of Languages
- On the Creation of the World
- On the Life of Moses: Books 1-3
- On the Sacrifice of Abel and Cain
- On the Unchangeableness of God
- To Prove that every Man who is virtuous is also free
- Charmides
- Hipparchus
- Letters
- Lysis
- Menexenus
- Phaedrus
- Against Epicurus: No Pleasant Life
- Isis and Osiris
- On Fortune
- On Stoic Self-Contradictions
- Letter to Marcella
- Antigone
- Oedipus Rex
- Cyropaedia
Example passages
……ἐπὶ πέρας ἀγαγόντα τὸ βιβλίον ἐκδόσθαι καὶ τοῖς ἐν τῇ παροικίᾳ βουλομένοις φιλομαθεῖν προκατασκευαζομένους τὰ ἤθη ἐννόμως βιοτεύειν πᾶσα σοφία παρὰ κυρίου καὶ μετ' αὐτοῦ ἐστιν εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα…
…τῆς ἀρετῆς, ἔφην ἐγώ, σοφία τε καὶ ἀνδρεία;—πάντων μάλιστα δήπου, ἔφη· καὶ μέγιστόν γε ἡ σοφία τῶν μορίων.—ἕκαστον δὲ αὐτῶν ἐστιν, ἦν δʼ ἐγώ, ἄλλο, τὸ δὲ ἄλλο;—ναί.—ἦ καὶ δύναμιν αὐτῶν ἕκαστον ἰδίαν ἔχει; ὥσπερ τὰ τοῦ……
…ὅτι εἰς κακότεχνον ψυχὴν οὐκ εἰσελεύσεται σοφία οὐδὲ κατοικήσει ἐν σώματι κατάχρεῳ ἁμαρτίας…
Subjects
Logos theology, Wisdom literature