ἈΠΑΤΑ, ἀπατα
APATA, apata
Sounds Like: ah-pah-TAH
Translations: deceive, mislead, trick, cheat
From the root: ἈΠΑΤΑΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word means to deceive, mislead, or trick someone. It is used to describe the act of causing someone to believe something that is not true, often with the intent to gain an advantage or cause harm. It can be used in various contexts where someone is being led astray or tricked.
Inflection: Present, Indicative, Active, Third Person, Singular
Strong’s number: G0538 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:66
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments
- Mandate 11 — 1:13
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΠΑΤΑΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΠΑΤΑΣΘΑΙ — to deceive, to be deceived, to mislead, to be misled
- ἈΠΑΤΗΘΗ — to be deceived, to be led astray, to be cheated
- ἈΠΑΤΗΣΑΝΤΑ — having deceived, one who deceived, a deceiver
- ἈΠΑΤΗΣΟΝ — deceive, trick, beguile, mislead
- ἈΠΑΤΗΣΩ — I will deceive, I will mislead, I will trick
- ἈΠΑΤΩΝ — deceiving, misleading, beguiling
- ἈΠΑΤΩΝΤΑΙ — they are deceived, they are misled, they are beguiled
- ἈΠΑΤΩΝΤΕΣ — deceiving, misleading, cheating, those deceiving, deceivers
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