noun · feminine
enedras
Strong’sG1749
an ambush, plot, treachery, fraud
stem enedr-2 times in the New Testament1 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.
ἐν-έδρα, -ας, ἡ
(< ἕδρα, a seat), [in LXX: Jos 8:7, 9, Ps 10:8 (אָרַב)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1749 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiden'-ed-ron
an ambush, i.e. (figuratively) murderous design
Fromneuter of the same as G1747;
King Jameslying in wait.
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
={ἐνέδρα} 1, LXX
II hindrance, obstruction, Refs 4th 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 | enedras | enedrais |
| object accusative | enedran2×ἐνέδραν | enedrain |
| direct address vocative | enedrar | enedrair |
| of, belonging to genitive | enedrau | enedraiu |
| to, for dative | enedra | enedrai |
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
enedra 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
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
enedran“ambush”objectaccusative singular2×
Acts 23:16“ambush”… tos huios tau adelfau Paulou tan enedran paragenerantos kai eisercharantos eis tan parembolan …But when the son of Paul’s sister heard about the plot, he went into the barracks and told Paul.
Acts 25:3… autou hopōs metapempeteia auton eis Ierousalēm, enedran poiarōntois anairara auton kata tan hodan.… Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.