UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Sense 1: to catch, to trap, to seize, to learn in order to seize

Semantic entry: 27.32

Semantic domains: Learn

Subdomains: Learn Something Against Someone

Definition: (figurative extension of meaning of δράσσομαι ‘to catch, to seize,’ not occurring in the NT) to learn something about someone, with the purpose of seizing, arresting, or overcoming

Show passage in OET: CO1 3:19

OET-RV CO1 3:19

19 because this world’s wisdom is foolishness with God, because as it’s written: ‘He catches out the wise in their craftiness.’

OET-LV CO1 3:19

19 For/Because the wisdom of_ the _world this, foolishness with the god is.
For/Because it _has _been _written:
The one catching the wise in the craftiness of _them he _is.

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

δράσσομαι

Form 1

Sense 1: to catch, to trap, to seize, to learn in order to seize