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πλάνη

plánē · G4106 · Greek · 10 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. deception

    (Figurative extension of meaning of πλανάω ‘to cause to wander off the path,’ not occurring in the NT) Act of causing someone to hold a wrong view and thus be mistaken

    Examples

    Ephesians 4:14 As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of people, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;

    1 Thessalonians 2:3 For our exhortation does not come from error or impurity or by way of deceit;

  2. misleading belief, deceptive belief, error, mistaken view

    (Semantic derivative of πλάνη ‘deception,’) The content of that which misleads or deceives

    Examples

    Matthew 27:64 “Therefore, give orders for the tomb to be made secure until the third day; otherwise, His disciples may come and steal Him, and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

    1 Thessalonians 2:3 For our exhortation does not come from error or impurity or by way of deceit;

  3. perversion

    Behavior which deviates seriously from that which is morally correct

    Examples

    Romans 1:27 and likewise the men, too, abandoned natural relations with women and burned in their desire toward one another, males with males committing shameful acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

4 occurrences in 4 groups

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

4 occurrences in 4 groups

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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Semantic domains 3 entries
Misleading belief, deceptive belief, error, mistaken view31.10
πλάνη names a mistaken belief held as though it were true. John writes of discerning true and false teaching: “We are from God. The one who knows God listens to us; the one who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error” (1 John 4:6).
To mislead, to deceive, deception, to cause to be mistaken31.8
The same noun can name the act of deception itself. Paul warns of God's judgment on those who reject the truth: “For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false” (2 Thessalonians 2:11).
Perversion88.262
The noun can also describe a moral perversion or corrupt way of life. Jude writes of false teachers, “Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay they have given themselves up to the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah” (Jude 1:11).
Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

πλάνος plános · G4108 · causing someone to be mistaken, deceitful, that which deceives · 5×πλανάω planáō · G4105 · to mislead, to deceive, deception · 39×πλάνηplánē · G4106ἀποπλανάω apoplanáō · G635 · to deceive, to mislead, to cause to have completely wrong views · 2×πλανήτης planḗtēs · G4107 · wanderer · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πλάνης, ἡ, a wandering, a straying about, whereby one, led astray from the right way,…
πλάνης, ἡ, a wandering, a straying about, whereby one, led astray from the right way, roams hither and thither (Aeschylus (Herodotus), Euripides, Plato, Demosthenes, others). In the N. T. metaphorically, mental straying, i. e. error, wrong opinion relative to morals or religion: Eph 4:14; 1 Thess 2:3; 2 Thess 2:11; 2 Pet 2:18; 2 Pet 3:17; 1 Jn 4:6; Jude 1:11 (on which (cf. Winers Grammar, 189 (177) and) see ἐκχέω, b. at the end); error which shows itself in action, a wrong mode of acting: Rom 1:27; πλάνη ὁδοῦ τίνος (R. V. error of one's way i. e.) the wrong manner of life which one follows, Jas 5:20 (πλάνη ζωῆς, Wis. 1:12); as sometimes the Latin error, equivalent to that which leads into error, deceit, fraud: Mt 27:64.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Hold a Wrong View, Be Mistaken11 occurrencesLicentiousness, Perversion1 occurrence

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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