ἀποπλανάω
apoplanáō · G635 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to deceive, to mislead, to cause to have completely wrong views
To cause someone to definitely go astray in one’s beliefs or views
ExamplesMark 13:22 for false christs and false prophets will arise, and will provide signs and wonders, in order to mislead, if possible, the elect.
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to stray from the truth, to wander from the truth, to go astray from
To no longer believe what is true, but to start believing what is false
Examples1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
How it’s used In 5 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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- τὶςsomeone 1
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐκλεκτόςchosen 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀπόfrom+ πίστιςfaith, trust, faithfulness 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- φιλαργυρίαlove of wealth 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πρόςto, toward, with 2
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
- Greek verb meaning to deceive, mislead, or beguile (intensified with ἐξ-). Shares the semantic domain of deception and leading someone into error, though ἐξαπατάω emphasizes thorough deception while ἀποπλανάω emphasizes leading away from truth.
- ἀπατάω apatáō · G538 · to mislead, to deceive, deception
- Greek verb meaning to deceive or lead into error. Shares the core semantic field of causing someone to be misled or to have false beliefs, though without the specific prefix ἀπο- suggesting leading away.
In the other Testament 1 word
- תָּעָה tâʻâh · H8582 · to wander, to stray, to make wander
- Hebrew verb with overlapping semantic range: to lead astray, cause to err, or (intransitively) to go astray, stray from the right path. Used both literally (physical wandering) and figuratively (moral/spiritual error), matching the figurative sense of ἀποπλανάω.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To deceive, to mislead, to cause to have completely wrong views31.11
- In Mark 13:22, Jesus warns that “false christs and false prophets will arise, and will provide signs and wonders, in order to mislead (apoplanãn), if possible, the elect,” describing a deliberate effort to instill false belief.
- To stray from the truth, to wander from the truth, to go astray from31.67
- In 1 Timothy 6:10, Paul writes that “the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away (apeplanḗthēsan) from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs,” describing believers themselves drifting away from right belief.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀποπλάνω; 1 aorist passive ἀπεπλανήθην; to cause to go astray, tropically, to lead away…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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