Greek noun (feminine) · G1917
ἐπιβουλή
epibouleep-ee-boo-lay'
plot
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: epiboulḗ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1917is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1917
a plan against someone, i.e. a plot
The King James renders it: laying (lying) in wait.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
epiboule is rendered "plot". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Four of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 9:24but Saul learned of their plot. Day and night they watched the city gates in order to kill him.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
but Saul learned of their plot. Day and night they watched the city gates in order to kill him.
Acts 9:24ἐπιβουλὴ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's four uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a plot1
- a plot that1
- plot1
- plots1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐπιβουλῆς2
- ἐπιβουλαῖς1
- ἐπιβουλὴ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular2N-GSF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine plural1N-DPF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
Acts
four uses
but Saul learned of their plot. Day and night they watched the city gates in order to kill him.
- ἐπιβουλὴepiboulenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: plot
where he stayed three months. And when the Jews formed a plot against him as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.
- ἐπιβουλῆςepiboulesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: a plot
I served the Lord with great humility and with tears, especially in the trials that came upon me through the plots of the Jews.
- ἐπιβουλαῖςepiboulaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: plots
When I was informed that there was a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once. I also instructed his accusers to present their case against him before you.
- ἐπιβουλῆςepiboulesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: a plot that
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.