The corpus record

κατασοφ-ίζομαι

katasophizomai

outwit by sophisms

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Where it lives

Judith 2 · 2.28/10k
Acts 1 · 0.56/10k
Exodus 1 · 0.42/10k

What it meant

κατασοφ-ίζομαι · katasoph-izomai — LSJ

outwit by sophisms, fallacies, to be outwitted

outwit by sophisms or fallacies, c. acc. pers., LXX Ex. 1.10, Luc. DDeor. 5[1].1, etc.; ταῖς εὑρησιλογίαις κ. τὴν δύναμιν τῆς πεπρωμένης D.S. 17.116; τὸν νόμον διὰ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ κακουργίας κ. Just. Nov. 72.5: c. gen., Ael. in Ar.Byz. Epit. 58.6:—also as Pass., to be outwitted, Plu. Profect. 2.80c, Alex.Aphr. in SE 43.22, Luc. DDeor. 18[16].2, Longin. 17.1.

2 evade by quibbling

κ. τι περί τινων evade by quibbling, CIG (add.) 4224d10 (Anticragus).

3 falsify

falsify, J. AJ 8.15.5.

In the wild

κατασοφισάμενος · katasophisamenos New Testament, Acts 7.19 (DIORISIS sentence 186)
κατασοφισώμεθα · katasophisōmetha Septuaginta, Exodus 1
κατασοφίσασθαι · katasophisasthai Septuaginta, Judith 10
κατεσοφίσατο · katesophisato Septuaginta, Judith 5

Where it came from

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