γνῶσις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃tis. By surface analysis, γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “I know”) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡnɔ̂ː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈɡno.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɣno.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈɣno.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈɣno.sis/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ γνῶσῐς hē gnôsis |
τὼ γνώσει tṑ gnṓsei |
αἱ γνώσεις hai gnṓseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς γνώσεως tês gnṓseōs |
τοῖν γνωσέοιν toîn gnōséoin |
τῶν γνώσεων tôn gnṓseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ γνώσει têi gnṓsei |
τοῖν γνωσέοιν toîn gnōséoin |
ταῖς γνώσεσῐ / γνώσεσῐν taîs gnṓsesi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν γνῶσῐν tḕn gnôsin |
τὼ γνώσει tṑ gnṓsei |
τᾱ̀ς γνώσεις tā̀s gnṓseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | γνῶσῐ gnôsi |
γνώσει gnṓsei |
γνώσεις gnṓseis | ||||||||||
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Related terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “γνῶσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “γνῶσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- γνῶσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- γνῶσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G1108 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- examination idem, page 287.
- inquiry idem, page 443.
- investigation idem, page 457.
- knowledge idem, page 472.
- theory idem, page 865.
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