δόλιος
deceitful
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G1386 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
2 Corinthians 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“deceitful” is the headline sense of the Greek adjective δολιος (dólios). With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in 2 Corinthians. Its lone occurrence is 2 Corinthians 11:13. It shares a root with δολος, δελεαζω and δολοω. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1386 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Corinthians 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Deceitful 1×
- American Standard Version: Deceitful 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Deceitful 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Deceitful 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1386 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1386 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1386 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1386 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- deceitful
Word origin
Derived from δολος (dólos) (G1388) — deceit.
From G1388 ; guileful : - deceitful.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1386, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word δολιος appears 22 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 21 verses in 4 books.
- 22
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 21
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Psalms 5:7 δόλιος
- Proverbs 11:1 δόλιος
- Jeremiah 9:7 δόλιος
- Zephaniah 3:13 δόλιος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1386) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Psalms 5:7 δόλιος But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house: I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.
- Psalms 11:3 δόλιος If the foundations are destroyed, What can the righteous do?
- Psalms 11:4 δόλιος Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.
- Psalms 16:1 δόλιος Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge.
- Psalms 30:19 δόλιος
- Psalms 42:1 δόλιος As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants after you, God.
- Psalms 51:6 δόλιος Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
- Psalms 108:2 δόλιος Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn.
- Psalms 119:2 δόλιος Blessed are those who keep his statutes, Who seek him with their whole heart.
- Psalms 119:3 δόλιος Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways.
- Proverbs 11:1 δόλιος A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, But accurate weights are his delight.
- Proverbs 12:6 δόλιος The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, But the speech of the upright rescues them.
- Proverbs 12:17 δόλιος He who is truthful testifies honestly, But a false witness lies.
- Proverbs 12:24 δόλιος The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, But laziness ends in slave labor.
- Proverbs 12:27 δόλιος The slothful man doesn't roast his game, But the possessions of diligent men are prized.
- Proverbs 13:9 δόλιος The light of the righteous shines brightly, But the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.
- Proverbs 13:13 δόλιος Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, But he who respects a command will be rewarded.
- Proverbs 14:25 δόλιος A truthful witness saves souls, But a false witness is deceitful.
- Proverbs 20:14 δόλιος "It's no good, it's no good," says the buyer; But when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
- Jeremiah 9:7 δόλιος Therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people?
- Zephaniah 3:13 δόλιος The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid."
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1386) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
