Philosophia means “philosophy” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5385 — nesuah (“carriage”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5385 φιλοσοφία (philosophia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. philosophia (fil-os-of-ee'-ah) n. 1. "philosophy" 2. (specially), Jewish sophistry It has 6 linked Bible usages across 2 books. Visible English usage signals include philosophy. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
philosophia (fil-os-of-ee'-ah) n. 1. "philosophy" 2. (specially), Jewish sophistry [from G5386] KJV: philosophy Root(s): G5386
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5385. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
philosophy
Usage: Φιλο-σοφία, -ας, ἡ (φιλόσοφος), [in LXX: 4Ma.1:1 4Mac 5:10 4Mac 5:22 4Mac 7:9 4Mac 7:21 * ;] the love and pursuit of wisdom; hence, philosophy, investigation of truth and nature: of the so-called philosophy of false teachers, Col.2:8 (see Lft., ICC, in l).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render philosophia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G5385 (φιλοσοφία) appears 5 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
As I am going to demonstrate a most philosophical proposition, namely, that religious reasoning is absolute master of the passions, I would willingly advise you to give the utmost heed to philosophy.
Will you not awake from your trifling philosophy? and give up the folly of your notions; and, regaining understanding worthy of your age, search into the truth of an expedient course?
But thou deridest our philosophy, as though we lived irrationally in it.
First 6 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5385.
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
As I am going to demonstrate a most philosophical proposition, namely, that religious reasoning is absolute master of the passions, I would willingly advise you to give the utmost heed to philosophy.
Will you not awake from your trifling philosophy? and give up the folly of your notions; and, regaining understanding worthy of your age, search into the truth of an expedient course?
But thou deridest our philosophy, as though we lived irrationally in it.
Thou, father, hast gloriously established our right government by thy endurance; and making of much account our service past, prevented its destruction, and, by thy deeds, hast made credible the words of philosophy.
since what person, walking religiously by the whole rule of philosophy, and believing in God,
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5385, grouped by book.
Philosophia (Strong's G5385) is a Greek word most simply glossed "philosophy". philosophia (fil-os-of-ee'-ah) n. 1. "philosophy" 2. (specially), Jewish sophistry
This page currently indexes 6 linked usages for Strong's G5385 across 2 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5385 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as philosophy. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5385, with linked reader references where each row is available.