Strong's Lexicon
G4106 — πλάνη
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G4106 |
|---|---|
| Word: | πλάνη |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Etymology: | feminine of G4108 (as abstractly) |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 10 |
| Transliteration: | plane |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | plan'-ay |
| Meaning: | 1. (properly) a straying or wandering from the straight path (i.e. a deviation, an error, a bending) 2. (objectively) fraudulence 3. (subjectively) a straying from orthodoxy or piety |
| KJV Renderings: | deceit, to deceive, delusion, error |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πλάνη, 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; 1Th 2:3; 2Th 2:11; 2Pe 2:18; 2Pe 3:17; 1Jn 4:6; Jud 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: Mat 27:64.
Other Resources
Englishman's Greek Concordance
πλάνη (deceit)
Matthew 27:64
- KJV: Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day lest his disciples come by night and steal him away and say unto the people He is risen from the dead so the last error shall be worse than the first
- GK: κέλευσον ουν ασφαλισθήναι τον τάφον έως της τρίτης ημέρας μήποτε ελθόντες οι μαθηταί αυτού νυκτός κλέψωσιν αυτόν και είπωσι τω λαώ ηγέρθη από των νεκρών και έσται η εσχάτη πλάνη χείρων της πρώτης
Romans 1:27
- KJV: And likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their lust one toward another men with men working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet
- GK: ομοίως τε και οι άρρενες αφέντες την φυσικήν χρήσιν της θηλείας εξεκαύθησαν εν τη ορέξει αυτών εις αλλήλους άρσενες εν άρσεσι την ασχημοσύνην κατεργαζόμενοι και την αντιμισθίαν ην έδει της πλάνης αυτών εν εαυτοίς απολαμβάνοντες
Ephesians 4:14
- KJV: That we be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive
- GK: ίνα μηκέτι ώμεν νήπιοι κλυδωνιζόμενοι και περιφερόμενοι παντί ανέμω της διδασκαλίας εν τη κυβεία των ανθρώπων εν πανουργία προς την μεθοδείαν της πλάνης
1 Thessalonians 2:3
- KJV: For our exhortation not of deceit nor of uncleanness nor in guile
- GK: η γαρ παράκλησις ημών ουκ εκ πλάνης ουδέ εξ ακαθαρσίας ούτε εν δόλω
2 Thessalonians 2:11
- KJV: And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie
- GK: και διά τούτο πέμψει αυτοίς ο θεός ενέργειαν πλάνης εις το πιστεύσαι αυτούς τω ψεύδει
James 5:20
- KJV: Let him know that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way save a soul from death and shall hide a multitude of sins
- GK: γινωσκέτω ότι ο επιστρέψας αμαρτωλόν εκ πλάνης οδού αυτού σώσει ψυχήν εκ θανάτου και καλύψει πλήθος αμαρτιών
2 Peter 2:18
- KJV: For when they speak great swelling of vanity they allure through the lusts of the flesh wantonness those that were clean escaped from them who live in error
- GK: υπέρογκα γαρ ματαιότητος φθεγγόμενοι δελεάζουσιν εν επιθυμίαις σαρκός ασελγείαις τους όντως αποφυγόντας τους εν πλάνη αναστρεφομένους
2 Peter 3:17
- KJV: Ye therefore beloved seeing ye know before beware lest ye also being led away with the error of the wicked fall from your own stedfastness
- GK: υμείς ούν αγαπητοί προγινώσκοντες φυλάσσεσθε ίνα μη τη των αθέσμων πλάνη συναπαχθέντες εκπέσητε του ιδίου στηριγμού
1 John 4:6
- KJV: We are of God he that knoweth God heareth us he that is not of God heareth not us Hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error
- GK: ημείς εκ του θεού εσμέν ο γινώσκων τον θεόν ακούει ημών ος ουκ έστιν εκ του θεού ουκ ακούει ημών εκ τούτου γινώσκομεν το πνεύμα της αληθείας και το πνεύμα της πλάνης