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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

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πλάνη

Strong’s: G4106

Associated OET lemmas: πλάνη

Notes: The meanings of πλανάω and πλάνη[a] (31.8: πλανάω / 31.8: πλάνη), πλάνος (31.9: πλάνος), πλάνη[b] (31.10: πλάνη), and ἀποπλανάω (31.11: ἀποπλανάω) focus primarily upon the misleading or deceptive views which people are caused to have, but these same terms may refer to more than mere mistaken ideas or opinions. They may involve deception of a behavioral nature, and therefore these same meanings could be in Domain 88 Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior, Subdomain U Mislead, Lead Astray, Deceive.

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: πλάνη; -ης

Related lemmas: πλανάω

Sense 1: deception

Semantic entry: 31.8

Semantic domains: Hold a View, Believe, Trust

Subdomains: Hold a Wrong View, Be Mistaken

Definition: (figurative extension of meaning of πλανάω ‘to cause to wander off the path,’ not occurring in the NT) act of causing someone to hold a wrong view and thus be mistaken{N:001}

Notes: To mislead people as to proper views which they should have may often be expressed idiomatically, for example, ‘to twist people’s thoughts,’ ‘to cause what is false to seem like what is true,’ ‘to make a lie appear true,’ ‘to dig away the truth,’ or ‘to cover the eyes with lies.’

Show passage in OET: EPH 4:14

OET-RV EPH 4:14

14 Then we’ll no longer be like children in our faith, tossed around by waves and being blown by every wind of teaching used to trick us or by crafty people who scheme how to deceive us.

OET-LV EPH 4:14

14 in_order_that no_longer we_may_be infants, being_tossed_by_waves and being_carried_about by_every wind of_ the _teaching in the trickery of_ the _people, in craftiness with the scheming of_ the _deception,
Show passage in OET: TH1 2:3

OET-RV TH1 2:3

3 As we recommend a change in your lifestyles, we don’t do it with deception or impurity or deceit,

OET-LV TH1 2:3

3 For/Because the exhortation of_us not of deception, nor of impurity, nor in deceit,

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All 5 recorded passages for this sense

EPH: OET EPH 4:14

TH1: OET TH1 2:3

TH2: OET TH2 2:11

JAM: OET JAM 5:20

JN1: OET JN1 4:6

Sense 2: misleading belief, deceptive belief, error, mistaken view

Semantic entry: 31.10

Semantic domains: Hold a View, Believe, Trust

Subdomains: Hold a Wrong View, Be Mistaken

Definition: (semantic derivative of πλάνη[a] ‘deception,’ 31.8: πλανάω / 31.8: πλάνη) the content of that which misleads or deceives{N:001}

Show passage in OET: MAT 27:64

OET-RV MAT 27:64

64 so you should command that the tomb be secured until the third day in case someone steals his body and then tells the people that he has come alive again—that would be a worse deception than his initial teachings.”

OET-LV MAT 27:64

64 Therefore command the tomb to_be_secured until the third day, lest the apprentices/followers having_come may_steal him and they_may_say to_the people:
He_was_raised from the dead, and the last deception will_be worse than the first.
Show passage in OET: TH1 2:3

OET-RV TH1 2:3

3 As we recommend a change in your lifestyles, we don’t do it with deception or impurity or deceit,

OET-LV TH1 2:3

3 For/Because the exhortation of_us not of deception, nor of impurity, nor in deceit,

Jump to OET MAT 27:64 section.

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All 6 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: OET MAT 27:64

TH1: OET TH1 2:3

JAM: OET JAM 5:20

PE2: OET PE2 2:18 · OET PE2 3:17

JDE: OET JDE 1:11

Sense 3: perversion

Semantic entry: 88.262

Semantic domains: Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior

Subdomains: Licentiousness, Perversion

Definition: behavior which deviates seriously from that which is morally correct

Notes: In a number of languages πλάνη in OET ROM 1:27 may be rendered as ‘what people do which is completely wrong’ or ‘… what is very wrong indeed.’

Show passage in OET: ROM 1:27

OET-RV ROM 1:27

27 and similarly their men deserted the natural behaviours towards women, and stoked their lusts towards each other—man with man, and the shame that it produces, and then received back in themselves the payment which is appropriate for such deception.

OET-LV ROM 1:27

27 and likewise also the male having_left the natural usage of_the female, were_burned in the desire of_them toward one_another, male with male the shame producing, and the recompense which it_was_fitting of_the deception of_them, in themselves taking_back.

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