Sophia

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Check out this article on Sophia. Note the statue of Sophia from the city of Sofia near the bottom of the article. Correction to my earlier comment: Sophia is not really the goddess of wisdom but rather the personification of wisdom. In the Christian tradition Sophia is 'Hagia Sophia' or Holy Wisdom: 

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Sophia (Koinē Greek: σοφία sophía "wisdom") is a central idea in Hellenistic philosophy and religion, Platonism, Gnosticism and Christian theology. Originally carrying a meaning of "cleverness, skill", the later meaning of the term, close to the meaning of Phronesis ("wisdom, intelligence"), was significantly shaped by the term philosophy ("love of wisdom") as used by Plato.

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Strong's Concordance sophia: skill, wisdom 

Original Word: σοφία, ας, ἡ 

Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: sophia 

Phonetic Spelling: (sof-ee'-ah) 

Definition: skill, wisdom 

Usage: wisdom, insight, skill (human or divine), intelligence. 

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon 

STRONGS NT 4678: σοφία σοφία, σοφίας, ἡ (σοφός), Hebrew חָכְמָה, wisdom, broad and full intelligence (from Homer down); used of the knowledge of very diverse matters, so that the shade of meaning in which the word is taken must be discovered from the context in every particular case.

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N.T. Wright explains that 'literally the word (philosophy, my add) means 'love and wisdom''. (101).

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φιλοσοφίας (philosophy)

φιλοσοφία, ας, ἡ Root word

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φίλος (friend, beloved)

σοφία (wisdom)

STRONG, J. (1890)(1986) Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, Burlington, Welch Publishing Company. 

WRIGHT, N.T., Colossians and Philemon, (1986)(1989), IVP, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids.