ἐπίβουλος
plotting, treacherous
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐπίβουλος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 4 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 1 Samuel 29:4 ἐπίβουλος And the captains of the Philistines were displeased at him, and they say to him, Send the man away, and let him return to his place, where you did set him; and let him not come with us to the war, and let him not be a traitor in the camp: and wherewith will he be reconciled to his master? Will it not be with the heads of those men?
- 2 Samuel 19:23 ἐπίβουλος And the king said to Semei, You shall not die: and the king swore to him.
- 1 Kings 5:18 ἐπίβουλος And they prepared the stones and the timber during three years.
- Habakkuk 2:7 ἐπίβουλος For suddenly there shall arise up those that bite him, and they that plot against you shall awake, and you shall be a plunder to them.
About this word
About this word
ἐπίβουλος (epíboulos), “plotting, treacherous,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 4 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
