from sophos, “wise” (connected etymologically with sophes, “tasty”), in the Active Voice signifies “to make wise,” 2Ti 3:15<\/span> (so in the Sept. of Psa 19:7<\/span>, e.g., “making babes wise;” in Psa 119:98<\/span>, “Thous hast made me wiser than mine enemies”). In the Middle Voice it means (a) “to become wise;” it is not used thus in the NT, but is so found in the Sept., e.g., in Ecc 2:15<\/span>,19; Ecc 7:17<\/span>; (b) “to play the sophist, to devise cleverly;” it is used with this meaning in the Passive Voice in 2Pe 1:16<\/span>, “cunningly devised fables.” See WISE. <\/p>\n Note: Cp. katasophizomai, “to deal subtly. See DEAL WITH, Note (2). <\/p>\n Devised (cunningly) from sophos, “wise” (connected etymologically with sophes, “tasty”), in the Active Voice signifies “to make wise,” 2Ti 3:15 (so in the Sept. of Psa 19:7, e.g., “making babes wise;” in Psa 119:98, “Thous hast made me wiser than mine enemies”). In the Middle Voice it means (a) “to become wise;” it is not … Continue reading “Devised (cunningly)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"