noun · feminine
epiboulas
Strong’sG1917
a plot, design against
stem epiboul-4 times in the New Testament3 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.
ἐπι-βουλή, -ῆς, ἡ
[in LXX: Es 2:22, I Es 5:73, II Mac 5:7, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1917 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
plan formed against another, plot, scheme, Refs 5th c.BC+; πρός τινα against one, Refs 5th c.BC+ by treachery, treacherously, ἐξ ἐ. ἀποθανεῖν, ἐξ ἐ. φονεὺς εἶναι, Refs 5th c.BC+ designedly, Refs 5th c.BC+
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 | epiboulas1×ἐπιβουλὴ | epiboulais |
| object accusative | epiboulan | epiboulain |
| direct address vocative | epiboular | epiboulair |
| of, belonging to genitive | epiboulau2×ἐπιβουλῆς | epiboulaiu |
| to, for dative | epiboula | epiboulai1×ἐπιβουλαῖς |
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
epiboula 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
epiboulas“plot”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 9:24gnōskita de to Saulo tas epiboulas autoiu. paratērole de kai tain pulain …but Saul learned of their plot. Day and night they watched the …
epiboulau“plot”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Acts 20:3poiarantos tē mēnoin treis; generantau epiboulau auto hupo toiu Ioudaioiu mellarōnto anagorō …… And when the Jews formed a plot against him as he was about …
Acts 23:30mēnuirantau de mi epiboulau eis ton andron eri exautēs pempama …… was informed that there was a plot against the man, I sent him …
epiboulai“plots”to, fordative plural1×
Acts 20:19… peirasmoiu toiu sumbainarantoiu mi en tai epiboulai toiu Ioudaioiu;… that came upon me through the plots of the Jews.