noun · feminine
planas
Strong’sG4106
a wandering, error
stem plan-10 times in the New Testamentin 9 of 27 books3 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.
πλάνη, -ης, ἡ,
[in LXX: Pr 14:8 (מִרְמָה), Wi 1:12, al;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4106 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidplan'-ay
objectively, fraudulence; subjectively, a straying from orthodoxy or piety
Fromfeminine of G4108 (as abstractly);
King Jamesdeceit, to deceive, delusion, error.
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
wandering, roaming, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 discursive treatment, ἡ διὰ παντὸς διέξοδος καὶ π. Refs 5th c.BC+
II metaphorically, going astray, βίοτος ἀνθρώπων π. Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ περὶ τὰ χρώματα π. τῆς ὄψεως the illusion, Refs; πολλὴν ἔχει.. πλάνην irregularity, Refs 4th c.BC+; πολλὰς ἀπορίας ἔχει καὶ π. Refs; ἡ κατὰ τὰς αἰσθήσεις π. Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2 deceit, imposture, LXX+NT
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 | planas1×πλάνη | planais |
| object accusative | planan | planain |
| direct address vocative | planar | planair |
| of, belonging to genitive | planau6×πλάνης | planaiu |
| to, for dative | plana3×πλάνῃ | planai |
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
plana 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.
10 occurrences, every one of them listed
planas“deception”subjectnominative singular1×
Matthew 27:64… toiu nekroiu, kai eti tas eschatas planas cheirōnas tau prōtau.… from the dead. And this last deception would be worse than the first.”
planau“error”of, belonging togenitive singular6×
Romans 1:27… kai tan antimisthian han date tau planau autoiu en heautoi apolabarōntois.… themselves the due penalty for their error.
Ephesians 4:14… en panourgia pros tan methodeian tau planau,… clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.
1 Thessalonians 2:3“error”tas gar paraklēsias nu ouk ek planau oude ek akatharsiau oude en dolo,For our appeal does not arise from deceit or ulterior motives or trickery.
2 Thessalonians 2:11… houtem pempatō autoi tos theos energeian planau eis tem pisteuara autoin te pseude,… God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie,
James 5:20gnōskatōr hoti tos epistrefarantos hamartōlon ek planau hodau autou sōzati psuchan autou ek …… Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his …
1 John 4:6“error”… tau alētheiau kai tem pneumem tau planau.… Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.
plana“error”to, fordative singular3×
2 Peter 2:18… aselgeiai toin oligōs apofugarōntoin toin en plana anastreforōntoin,… escaping from others who live in error.
2 Peter 3:17… fulassovōr hina mē ta toiu athesmoiu plana sunapagirantois ekpiptaveia tou idiou stērigmou,… not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from …
Jude 1:11… hoda tou Kain poreuila, kai ta plana tou Balaam misthou ekchila, kai ta …… have rushed for profit into the error of Balaam; they have perished in …