δόλιος
dólios · G1386 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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deceitful, treacherous
(Derivative of δολιόω ‘to deceive,’) Pertaining to using treachery in order to deceive
Examples2 Corinthians 11:13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- πανοῦργος panoûrgos · G3835 · scoundrel, crafty fellow
- Both describe cunning and craftiness used for deceptive purposes; πανοῦργος emphasizes clever scheming while δόλιος emphasizes guileful treachery
Contrasting words 1 word
- ἀληθινός alēthinós · G228 · real, really, true
- Expresses genuine truthfulness and authenticity as opposed to guileful deception; represents the quality of being true rather than treacherous
In the other Testament 2 words
- מִרְמָה mirmâh · H4820 · falsehood, deceit, treachery
- Standard Hebrew term for deceit and guile, regularly used to translate Greek words in the δόλος family; represents the semantic core of treacherous, guileful behavior
- רְמִיָּה rᵉmîyâh · H7423 · lazy, slothful, idle
- Hebrew term for deceitful or slack behavior, particularly in contexts of treachery and guile; closely aligned with δόλιος semantically
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Deceitful, treacherous88.155
- Used of a character concealed behind a false appearance, as of false apostles described as deceitful workers who disguise themselves as apostles of Christ in 2 Corinthians 11:13.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon δόλια, δόλιον (δόλος); from Homer on, deceitful: 2 Cor 11:13.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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