δόλος
deceit
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 verse where G1388 appears in the Nominative case in the Book of Mark. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Mark
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.
δολος — transliterated dólos — is a Greek word carrying the sense “deceit.” It first appears in Matthew 26:4. The Greek New Testament uses it across 11 verses — uncommon. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in 1 Peter. Related forms include δελεαζω, δολιος and δολοω. See the sense tree, 11-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1388 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 →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
- #978
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 978 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
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 11 distinct verses.
- Gospels 4 verses · 36%
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 27%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 3 verses · 27%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 9%
- Johannine 1 verse · 9%
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: Guile 6×, Deceit 2×, Subtilty 2×
- American Standard Version: Guile 7×, Deceit 2×, Subtlety 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Deceit 6×, Trickery 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Deceit 11×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1388 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1388 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1388 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1388 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- craft, deceit, guile
Word origin
Derived from δελεαζω (deleázō) (G1185) — to entice.
From δέλλω dellō (an obsolete primary probably meaning to decoy ; compare G1185 ); a trick ( bait ) that is (figuratively) wile : - craft deceit guile subtilty.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G1388 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| δόλῳ dólō | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 26:4 | 4 |
| δόλος dólos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Mark 7:22 | 3 |
| δόλον dólon | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Peter 2:1 | 2 |
| δόλου dólou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Acts 13:10 | 2 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1388, 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
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word δολος appears 34 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 33 verses in 14 books.
- 34
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 33
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 14 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 14 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 27:35 δόλος
- Exodus 21:14 δόλος
- Leviticus 19:16 δόλος
- Deuteronomy 27:24 δόλος
- 2 Kings 9:23 δόλος
- Job 13:7 δόλος
- Psalms 9:28 δόλος
- Proverbs 10:10 δόλος
- Isaiah 9:4 δόλος
- Jeremiah 5:27 δόλος
- Ezekiel 35:5 δόλος
- Daniel 8:25 δόλος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1388) 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.
- Genesis 27:35 δόλος He said, "Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing."
- Genesis 34:13 δόλος The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
- Exodus 21:14 δόλος If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
- Leviticus 19:16 δόλος "'You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people; neither shall you stand against the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.
- Deuteronomy 27:24 δόλος Cursed be he who strikes his neighbor in secret. All the people shall say, Amen.
- 2 Kings 9:23 δόλος Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, Ahaziah.
- Job 13:7 δόλος Will you speak unrighteously for God, And talk deceitfully for him?
- Job 13:16 δόλος This also shall be my salvation, That a godless man shall not come before him.
- Job 15:35 δόλος They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit."
- Job 31:5 δόλος "If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot has hurried to deceit
- Psalms 9:28 δόλος
- Psalms 23:4 δόλος Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
- Psalms 31:2 δόλος Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, A house of defense to save me.
- Psalms 33:14 δόλος From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
- Psalms 34:20 δόλος He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.
- Psalms 35:4 δόλος Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.
- Psalms 51:4 δόλος Against you, and you only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in your sight; That you may be proved right when you speak, And justified when you judge.
- Psalms 54:12 δόλος
- Proverbs 10:10 δόλος One winking with the eye causes sorrow, But a chattering fool will fall.
- Proverbs 12:5 δόλος The thoughts of the righteous are just, But the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
- Proverbs 12:20 δόλος Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, But joy comes to the promoters of peace.
- Proverbs 16:24 δόλος Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
- Proverbs 26:23 δόλος Like silver dross on an earthen vessel Are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.
- Proverbs 26:24 δόλος A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, But he harbors evil in his heart.
- Proverbs 26:26 δόλος His malice may be concealed by deception, But his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
- Isaiah 9:4 δόλος For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.
- Isaiah 53:9 δόλος They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
- Jeremiah 5:27 δόλος As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and grew rich.
- Jeremiah 9:5 δόλος They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.
- Ezekiel 35:5 δόλος Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;
- Daniel 8:25 δόλος Through his policy he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and in [their] security shall he destroy many: he shall also stand up against the prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
- Micah 6:11 δόλος Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, And with a bag of deceitful weights?
- Zephaniah 1:9 δόλος In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master's house with violence and deceit.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1388) 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.
