UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: φιλοσοφία; -ας

Constructions: φιλοσοφία; φιλέω; σοφίζω

Sense 1: human understanding, human wisdom, philosophy

Semantic entry: 32.38

Semantic domains: Understand

Subdomains: Capacity for Understanding

Definition: human understanding or wisdom and, by implication, in contrast with divinely revealed knowledge

Notes: In RV COL 2:8 · LV COL 2:8 · Read together COL 2:8 φιλοσοφία may be rendered in some languages as ‘the way in which people are wise’ or ‘the way in which people understand things’ or ‘the manner in which people reason.’

COL 2:8: RV COL 2:8 · LV COL 2:8 · Read together COL 2:8

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OET-RV COL 2:8

8 Be careful in case anyone captures your minds with fancy ideas or theories without proof that come from human traditions or from worldly thinking, and not from Messiah.

OET-LV COL 2:8

8 Be _watching _out, lest anyone will _be which taking_ you _all _captive through the philosophy and empty seduction, according _to the tradition of_ the _humans, according _to the principles of _the world, and not according _to chosen _one /messiah.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

φιλοσοφία

Form 1

Sense 1: human understanding, human wisdom, philosophy