φρεναπατάω
phrenapatáō · G5422 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to mislead, to deceive, deception
To cause someone to have misleading or erroneous views concerning the truth
ExamplesGalatians 6:3 For if anyone thinks that he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἑαυτοῦhimself, herself, itself 1
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 2 words
- ἐξαπατάω exapatáō · G1818 · to mislead, to deceive, deception
- Both verbs denote deception. φρεναπατάω specifically targets the mind (deceiving someone's thinking), while ἐξαπατάω emphasizes thoroughness or completeness of the deception. These represent distinct emphases within the shared broader sense of misleading or deceiving someone.
- ἀπατάω apatáō · G538 · to mislead, to deceive, deception
- φρεναπατάω is a compound form incorporating ἀπατάω as its base with φρήν (mind), specifying deception that targets the intellect or mental faculties, whereas ἀπατάω denotes deception generally. The compound form appears only once in the corpus while the simple form appears more broadly.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To mislead, to deceive, deception31.12
- Galatians 6:3 warns, “For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.”
Word family 19 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon φρεναπάτω; (φρεναπάτης, which see): τινα, to deceive anyone's mind, Gal 6:3 ("more is…
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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