ΔΟΛΟΣ, δολος
DOLOS, dolos
Sounds Like: DO-los
Translations: guile, deceit, craft, treachery, a guile, a deceit
From the root: ΔΟΛΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to cunning, deceit, or treachery. It describes a deceptive scheme or a malicious trick. It can be used to describe the character of a person who acts with deceit, or the deceptive nature of an action or plan.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G1388 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
Codex Sinaiticus
- Tobit — 14:9
- Psalms — 31:2, 35:4, 54:12
- Proverbs — 12:20
- Job — 13:16
- Wisdom — 4:11, 14:25
- Mark — 7:22
- John — 1:47
- 1 Peter — 2:22
- Epistle of Barnabas — 20:1
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 13:6
Polycarp of Smyrna
- Polycarp’s Letter to the Philippians — 8:1
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Kings — 9:23
- Tobit — 14:10
- Psalms — 31:2, 35:4, 54:12
- Proverbs — 12:20
- Job — 13:16
- Wisdom — 4:11, 14:25
- Jeremiah — 9:6
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 8:25, 14:18
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 14:18
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
Twelve Disciples
- The Didache — 5:1
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
- ΔΟΛΟΝ — deceit, guile, craft, treachery, a snare, a trap
- 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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