ἐνεδρεύω
to ambush
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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (50%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 2 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1748 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. 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.
Luke 1 verse
Acts 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.
The Greek verb ενεδρευω centers on the idea of “to ambush.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 2 verses. The word gravitates to Luke (50%), then Acts. Debuting at Luke 11:54, it then recurs through the corpus. It shares a root with ενεδρα and ενεδρον. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1748 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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 2 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 100%
- Gospels 1 verse · 50%
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: Laying wait for 1×, Lie in wait for 1×
- American Standard Version: Laying wait 1×, Lie in wait 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Are waiting to ambush 1×, Waiting 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Lying in wait 1×, Wait in ambush 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1748 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1748 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1748 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1748 across 2 tagged occurrences — 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.
- to lie in wait for, to lay wait for, prepare a trap for
Word origin
Derived from ενεδρα (enédra) (G1747) — ambush.
From G1747 ; to lurk that is (figuratively) plot assassination : - lay wait for.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G1748 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐνεδρεύοντες enedreúontes | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 11:54 | 1 |
| ἐνεδρεύουσιν enedreúousin | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Acts 23:21 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1748, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ενεδρευω appears 17 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 16 verses in 9 books.
- 17
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 16
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Deuteronomy 19:11 ἐνεδρεύω
- Joshua 8:4 ἐνεδρεύω
- Judges 9:25 ἐνεδρεύω
- 1 Samuel 15:5 ἐνεδρεύω
- 2 Samuel 3:27 ἐνεδρεύω
- Job 24:11 ἐνεδρεύω
- Psalms 9:30 ἐνεδρεύω
- Proverbs 7:12 ἐνεδρεύω
- Lamentations 3:10 ἐνεδρεύω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1748) 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.
- Deuteronomy 19:11 ἐνεδρεύω But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him mortally so that he dies, and he flee into one of these cities;
- Joshua 8:4 ἐνεδρεύω He commanded them, saying, Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city; don't go very far from the city, but be all ready:
- Judges 9:25 ἐνεδρεύω The men of Shechem set liers-in-wait for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.
- Judges 9:32 ἐνεδρεύω Now therefore, up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field:
- Judges 9:34 ἐνεδρεύω Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
- Judges 9:43 ἐνεδρεύω He took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and, behold, the people came forth out of the city; He rose up against them, and struck them.
- Judges 16:2 ἐνεδρεύω [It was told] the Gazites, saying, Samson is come here. They compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, [Let be] until morning light, then we will kill him.
- Judges 21:20 ἐνεδρεύω They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,
- 1 Samuel 15:5 ἐνεδρεύω Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
- 2 Samuel 3:27 ἐνεδρεύω When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
- Job 24:11 ἐνεδρεύω They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
- Job 38:40 ἐνεδρεύω When they crouch in their dens, And lie in wait in the thicket?
- Psalms 9:30 ἐνεδρεύω
- Proverbs 7:12 ἐνεδρεύω Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, And lurking at every corner.
- Proverbs 26:19 ἐνεδρεύω Is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?"
- Lamentations 3:10 ἐνεδρεύω He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1748) 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.
