ΔΟΛΟΝ, δολον
DOLON, dolon
Sounds Like: DO-lon
Translations: deceit, guile, craft, treachery, a snare, a trap
From the root: ΔΟΛΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to deceit, cunning, or trickery, often with malicious intent. It can describe a hidden trap or a deceptive scheme. It is frequently used in contexts where someone is acting with hidden motives or trying to ensnare another through dishonest means.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G1388 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- To the Newly Baptized — 1:2
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 22:3
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Six — 3:1
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 102:7
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Samuel — 14:20
- Psalms — 33:14, 51:4
- Proverbs — 26:26
- Job — 13:7, 15:35, 31:5
- Wisdom — 1:5
- Isaiah — 53:9
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 11:23
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 14:19
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΟΛΟΣ.
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.
- ΔΟΛΕΡΟΣ — deceitful, treacherous, crafty, a deceitful, a treacherous, a crafty
- ΔΟΛΙΑ — deceitful, crafty, treacherous, cunning
- ΔΟΛΙΑΣ — deceitful, treacherous, cunning, crafty
- ΔΟΛΟ — deceit, guile, fraud, treachery, craft, a snare, a trap, a trick, a stratagem, a deception, a cunning, a deceitfulness, (of) deceit, (of) guile, (of) fraud, (of) treachery, (of) craft, (of) a snare, (of) a trap, (of) a trick, (of) a stratagem, (of) a deception, (of) a cunning, (of) a deceitfulness
- ΔΟΛΟΙΣ — to deceit, by deceit, with deceit, to guile, by guile, with guile, to craft, by craft, with craft
- ΔΟΛΟΣ — guile, deceit, craft, treachery, a guile, a deceit
- ΔΟΛΟΥ — of deceit, of guile, of treachery, of fraud, of trickery
- ΔΟΛΟΥΣ — deceits, guiles, tricks, frauds, snares, traps, a deceit, a guile, a trick, a fraud, a snare, a trap
- ΔΟΛΩ — (to) deceit, (by) deceit, (with) deceit, (to) guile, (by) guile, (with) guile, (to) treachery, (by) treachery, (with) treachery, a deceit, a guile, a treachery
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