Lexical Summary methodeia: craft, deceit Original Word: μεθοδείαTransliteration: methodeia Phonetic Spelling: (meth-od-i'-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: craft, deceit Meaning: craft, deceit Strong's Concordance scheming, trickeryFrom a compound of meta and hodeuo (compare "method"); travelling over, i.e. Travesty (trickery) -- wile, lie in wait. see GREEK meta see GREEK hodeuo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3180: μεθοδείαμεθοδεία (T WH μεθοδια, see Iota), μεθοδείας, ἡ (from μεθοδεύω, i. e. 1. to follow up or investigate by method and settled plan; 2. to follow craftily, frame devices, deceive: Diodorus 7, 16; 2 Samuel 19:27; (Exodus 21:13 Aq.; (middle) Chariton 7, 6, p. 166, 21 edition Reiske (1783); Polybius 38, 4, 10)), a noun occuring neither in the O. T. nor in secular authors, cunning arts, deceit, craft, trickery: ἡ μεθοδεία τῆς πλάνης, which ἡ πλάνη uses, Ephesians 4:14; τοῦ διαβόλου, plural, Ephesians 6:11 (A. V. wiles. Cf. Lightfoot, Polycarp, ad Phil. 7 [ET], p. 918.) |
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