The purpose of this short paper is to analyse the semantic field of the grammatical structure "δοκέω + εἶναι" which appears to be translated in various and ambiguous ways. Therefore, I invite the reader to a short philological adventure during which we will try to unfold the semantical field of the grammatical structure “οἱ δοκοῦντες στῦλοι εἶναι” used in Gal 2,9, and I try to find an answer to the following question: what does this characterisation exactly mean?