Strong's #5385: philosophia (pronounced fil-os-of-ee'-ah)

from 5386; "philosophy", i.e. (specially), Jewish sophistry:--philosophy.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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philosophia

1) love of wisdom

1a) used either of zeal for or skill in any art or science, any branch of knowledge. Used once in the NT of the theology, or rather theosophy, of certain Jewish Christian ascetics, which busied itself with refined and speculative enquiries into the nature and classes of angels, into the ritual of the Mosaic law and the regulations of Jewish tradition respecting practical life

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G5386

Citing in TDNT: 9:172, 1269

Usage:

This word is used 1 times:

 

Colossians 2:8: "spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after"