Lexical Summary
egkathetos: Suborned, secretly placed, planted
Original Word: ἐγκαθέτος
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: egkathetos
Pronunciation: eng-kath'-et-os
Phonetic Spelling: (eng-kath'-et-os)
KJV: spy
NASB: spies
Word Origin: [from G1722 (ἔν - among) and a derivative of G2524 (καθίημι - letdown)]
1. subinduced, i.e. surreptitiously suborned as a lier-in-wait
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
spy.
From en and a derivative of kathiemi; subinduced, i.e. Surreptitiously suborned as a lier-in-wait -- spy.
see GREEK en
see GREEK kathiemi
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
en and a derivation of
kathiémiDefinitionhired to lie in wait, lying in wait
NASB Translationspies (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1455: ἐγκάθετοςἐγκάθετος (
T WH ἐνκαθετος, see
ἐν, III. 3),
ἐγκαθετου ὁ ἡ (
ἐγκαθίημι (to send down in (secretly))),
suborned to lie in wait; a lier-in-wait, a spy, (cf. Latin
insidiator; English "insidious): used in
Luke 20:20 of one who is suborned by others to entrap a man by crafty words. (
Plato, Ax., p. 368 e.;
Demosthenes, p. 1483, 1;
Josephus,
b. j. 6, 5, 2;
Polybius 13, 5, 1, others; the
Sept., Job (
