Greek verb · G538
ἀπατάω
apataoap-at-ah'-o
to trick
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: apatáō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G538is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G538
to cheat, i.e. delude
The King James renders it: deceive.
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
apatao is rendered "to trick". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Ephesians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ephesians 5:6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
Ephesians 5:6ἀπατάτω
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's three uses is in Ephesians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- deceiving1
- should deceive1
- was deceived1
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 3, 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
- ἀπατάτω1
- ἀπατῶν1
- ἠπατήθη1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-API-3S
- verb · present active, command · 3rd person singular1V-PAM-3S
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-PAP-NSM
Ephesians
one use
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
- ἀπατάτωapatatoverb · present active, command · 3rd person singulartagged: should deceive
1 Timothy
one use
And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman who was deceived and fell into transgression.
- ἠπατήθηepatetheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was deceived
James
one use
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
- ἀπατῶνapatonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: deceiving
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.