Lexical Summary enkathetos: hired to lie in wait, lying in wait Original Word: ἐγκάθετοςTransliteration: enkathetos Phonetic Spelling: (eng-kath'-et-os) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: hired to lie in wait, lying in wait Meaning: hired to lie in wait, lying in wait Strong's 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 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. Latininsidiator; 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 ( |
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