Lexicon apaté: deceit Original Word: ἀπάτη, ης, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: apaté Phonetic Spelling: (ap-at'-ay) Short Definition: deceit, deception Definition: deceit, deception, deceitfulness, delusion. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 539 apátē – a false impression, made to deceive or cheat – i.e. deceit motivated by guile and treachery (trickery, fraud). See 538 (apataō). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain origin Definitiondeceit NASB Translationdeceit (1), deceitfulness (3), deception (2), deceptions (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 539: ἀπάτηἀπάτη, ἀπάτης, ἡ (from Homer down), deceit, deceitfulness: Colossians 2:8; τοῦ πλούτου, Matthew 13:22; Mark 4:19; τῆς ἀδικίας, 2 Thessalonians 2:10; τῆς ἁμαρτίας, Hebrews 3:13; αἱ ἐπιθυμίαι τῆς ἀπάτης the lusts excited by deceit, i. e. by deceitful influences seducing to sin, Ephesians 4:22 (others, 'deceitful lusts'; but cf. Meyer at the passage). Plural, ἀπαται: 2 Peter 2:13 (where L Tr text WH marginal reading ἐν ἀγάπαις), by a paragram (or verbal play) applied to the agapae or love-feasts (cf. ἀγάπη, 2), because these were transformed by base men into seductive revels.
Strong's deceitful, deceiving. From apatao; delusion -- deceit(-ful, -fulness), deceivableness(-ving). see GREEK apatao |
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