(RICK BRANNAN): ἄσοφος in the LXGNTLEX

John R. Gentry

Rick, in studying ἄσοφος (hapax in Ephesians 5.15) I turned to your *very helpful* resource, Lexham Research Lexicon of the Greek New Testament (LXGNTLEX).

In the **Alternate Corpus References** there is a reference to "Herodotus: Hdt., Hist. 1.196.1." This passage speaks of σοφώτατος (lemma: σοφός), not ἄσοφος.

In doing a morph search in Herodotus's *The Histories*, I did not find any references tagged with the lemma ἄσοφος.

Am I missing something? If there is a reference to ἄσοφος in this work, I am interested in learning where the reference is. If not, then this may be an occurrence of this word that needs to be removed from this entry.

Thanks for this *very helpful* resource and for any help you can offer in resolving this issue. Take care and God bless!

MJ. Smith

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Rick Brannan (Logos)

Thanks, John. Glad to hear the lexicons are useful!

The "Alternate Corpus References" are based on an aggregation of citations from lexicon articles on ασοφος. My guess offhand is that some lexicons discuss σοφος and cite that reference.

That said, I did a search for all the places where that exact reference is cited and couldn't find an article (though GE on σοφος does cite that reference). I'll have to dig to see how that one worked its way in, but I'm unsure as to when that might actually happen. Thanks for the note.

John R. Gentry

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1202168#Comment_1202168

Thanks, MJ, for bumping the post.

Thanks, Rick, for the explanation.