noun · masculine
dolos
Strong’sG1388
deceit, guile, treachery
stem dol-11 times in the New Testamentin 8 of 27 books4 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
δόλος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX chiefly for מִרְמָה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1388 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddol'-os
compare G1185); a trick (bait), i.e. (figuratively) wile
Fromfrom an obsolete primary verb, δέλλω (probably meaning to decoy;
King Jamescraft, deceit, guile, subtilty.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
B· πάσσαλος, Refs 5th c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | dolos3×δόλος | dolois |
| object accusative | dolon2×δόλον | doloin |
| direct address vocative | dolor | doloir |
| of, belonging to genitive | dolou2×δόλου | doloiu |
| to, for dative | dolo4×δόλῳ | doloi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
dolo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
11 occurrences, every one of them listed
dolos“deceit”subjectnominative singular3×
Mark 7:22moicheiais, pleonexiais, ponēriais, dolos, aselgeias, ofthalmos ponēros, blasfēmias, huperēfanias, afrosunas;greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
John 1:47… autou; Ide alēthōs Israēlitos en ho dolos ouk atō.… Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”
1 Peter 2:22hos hamartan ouk poiata oude heuriskita dolos en te stome autou;“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”
dolon“deceit”objectaccusative singular2×
1 Peter 2:1Apotitherantois oun pantan kakian kai panton dolon kai hupokrisiain kai fthonoin kai pantain …Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
1 Peter 3:10“deceit”… kakoseu kai cheileim teu mē lalara dolon,… tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful …
dolou“deceit”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Acts 13:10legata; Ō plēror pantou dolou kai pantau radiourgiau, huior diabolou, echthror …… are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery! Will you never stop …
Romans 1:29… pleonexia kakia, mestoin fthonou fonou eridau dolou kakoētheiau, psithuristoin,… are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
dolo“deceit”to, fordative singular4×
Matthew 26:4“stealth”kai sumbouleuela hina ton Iēsun dolo krataleia kai apoktenaleia;and they conspired to arrest Jesus covertly and kill Him.
Mark 14:1“stealth”… kai tois grammatevois pōs auton en dolo kratarantois apoktenaleia,… chief priests and scribes were looking for a covert way to arrest Jesus and kill Him.
2 Corinthians 12:16“deceit”… ouk katabarama vin; alla huparcharōntos panourgos dolo vin labama.… may, I was not a burden to you; but crafty as I am, I caught you by trickery.
1 Thessalonians 2:3… planau oude ek akatharsiau oude en dolo,… our appeal does not arise from deceit or ulterior motives or trickery.