Strong G4105πλανάω
to lead astray
- Transliteration
- planaō
- Pronunciation
- plan-ah'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
From G4106; to (properly cause to) roam (from safety truth or virtue): - go astray deceive err seduce wander be out of the way.
Detailed definition
πλανάω, -ῶ
(πλάνη), [in LXX chiefly for תָּעָה;]
to cause to wander, lead astray. Pass., to go astray, wander: Mat.18:12-13 Heb.11:38, 1Pe.2:25 (cf. Isa.53:6). Metaphorical, to lead astray, deceive: with accusative of person(s), Mat.24:4-5, 11 24:24, Mrk.13:5-6, Jhn.7:12, 2Ti.3:13; 1Jn.1:8 Jn 2:26 Jn 3:7, Rev.2:20 12:9 13:14 19:20 20:3, 8 20:10; pass., to be led astray, to err: Mat.22:29, Mrk.12:24, 27, Luk.21:8, Jhn.7:47, 2Ti.3:13, Tit.3:3, Heb.5:2, 2Pe.2:15, Rev.18:23; τ. καρδίᾳ, Heb.3:10; ἀπὸ τ. ἀληθείας, Jas.5:19;μὴ πλανᾶσθε, 1Co.6:9 15:33, Gal.6:7. Jas.1:16 (cf. ἀπο-πλανάω).†
(AS)
(πλάνη), [in LXX chiefly for תָּעָה;]
to cause to wander, lead astray. Pass., to go astray, wander: Mat.18:12-13 Heb.11:38, 1Pe.2:25 (cf. Isa.53:6). Metaphorical, to lead astray, deceive: with accusative of person(s), Mat.24:4-5, 11 24:24, Mrk.13:5-6, Jhn.7:12, 2Ti.3:13; 1Jn.1:8 Jn 2:26 Jn 3:7, Rev.2:20 12:9 13:14 19:20 20:3, 8 20:10; pass., to be led astray, to err: Mat.22:29, Mrk.12:24, 27, Luk.21:8, Jhn.7:47, 2Ti.3:13, Tit.3:3, Heb.5:2, 2Pe.2:15, Rev.18:23; τ. καρδίᾳ, Heb.3:10; ἀπὸ τ. ἀληθείας, Jas.5:19;μὴ πλανᾶσθε, 1Co.6:9 15:33, Gal.6:7. Jas.1:16 (cf. ἀπο-πλανάω).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4105 appears in 37 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- deceive15
- err6
- be5
- shall4
- astray4
- deceiveth3
- do3
- seduce2
- ye2
- go1
- let1
- should1
First verses
- Matthew 18:12How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
- Matthew 18:13And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.
- Matthew 22:29Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
- Matthew 24:4And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
- Matthew 24:5For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
- Matthew 24:11And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
- Matthew 24:24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
- Mark 12:24And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
- Mark 12:27He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
- Mark 13:5And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you:
- Mark 13:6For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
- Luke 21:8And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.
- John 7:12And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people.
- John 7:47Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived?
- 1 Corinthians 6:9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
- 1 Corinthians 15:33Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
- Galatians 6:7Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
- 2 Timothy 3:13But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
- Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
- Hebrews 3:10Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
πλᾰν-άω,
future -ήσω [LXX (LXX.4Ki.4.28, etc.)]:—passive and middle, future -ήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Mi.” 376c, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Peregr.” 16, -ηθήσομαι 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Demosthene” 9, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “VH” 2.27)]: aorist ἐπλανήθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 598, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.4, etc.)]: perfect πεπλάνημαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 565 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.16.β᾽, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 264c, etc.)]: (πλάνη):—Prose verb, ={πλάζω} (used once in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, also by Trag., 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus (see. below), and 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 10.15))], cause to wander, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 572 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.128.)]
2 lead from the subject, in talking, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.335.)]
3 lead astray, mislead, deceive, ἢ γνώμη πλαν; [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 316, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 356d, “Lg.” 655c, Theognetus Comicus 2.2, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 79; τὸν ὄχλον NT.John.7.12; τὸ ἀόριστον πλανᾷ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1415a14; τὰ μὴ πλανῶντα [prev. author] “Mete.” 347b35)]; πλανῶν τὴν ἔξοδον, of the Labyrinth, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus 3.1.4.)]
II passive, wander, stray, ἵπποι πλανόωνται ἀνὰ δρόμον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.321; ὅποι γῆς.. πεπλάνημαι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 565 (_anapaest meter_); π. εἰς πόλεις 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.97; κατὰ τὴν χώραν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.76; περὶ τὰ πεδία 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 264c: _absolutely_, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 347, etc.)]; of the planets, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 822a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 346a2, etc.: _metaphorically_, νοῦς ἐν αὑτῷ ὁ ἀληθινὸς πέφυκε πλανᾶσθαι 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.7.13)]; of reports, travel abroad, πολλὰ.. ἐμπόρων ἔπη φιλεῖ π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 304.)]
II.b c.accusative loci, πλανηθεὶς τήνδε βάρβαρον χθόνα having wandered over it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 598; πᾶσαν γῆν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lucullus” 34: c._accusative_ _cognate_, πολλοὺς ἑλιγμοὺς πλανώμενοι)] wandering about as in a labyrinth, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.3.4.)]
II.2 wander in speaking, π. ἐν τῷ λόγῳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.115)]; digress, π. ἀπὸ τοῦ λόγου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 263a.)]
II.3 with genitive, πλαναθεὶς καιροῦ having missed the right moment, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 8.4.)]
II.4 do a thing irregularly or with variation, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.52)]; ἐνύπνια τὰ ἐς ἀνθρώπους πεπλανημένα the varying dreams that visit them, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 7.16. β; πλανωμένη πρὸς ἄλλοτ᾽ ἄλλον πημονὴ προσιζάνει 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 277)]; πεπλανημένον τρόπον irregularly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προγνωστικόν” 24)]; to be unsettled, τὰ τῆς ἐλευθερίας ἔτι πλανώμενα καταστήματα [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“IG” 42(1).81.13 (Epid., 1st c.AD).)]
II.5 to be in doubt or at a loss, π. τὸ θέλει τὸ ἔπος εἶπαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.37: more frequently _absolutely_, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 473, etc.; π. καὶ ἀπορῶ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp. Ma.” 304c; ἡ ψυχὴ π. καὶ ταράττεται [prev. author] “Phd.” 79c)]; π. τῇ διανοίᾳ, ταῖς διανοίαις, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 15.52, “Ep.” 6.10; πεπλανημένην ἔχειν τὴν διάνοιαν [prev. author] 15.265; πλανωμένων θεραπεία παθῶν 2nd c.AD: Diogenes Oenoandensis Epicureus 27.)]
II.6 in forensic Rhet., χρώματα πεπλανημένα, μετάθεσις πεπ., of alternative pleas, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ τῶν στάσεων” 3.)]
II.7 to be misled, ὑπὸ φωνῆς κοινότητος [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 7; ταῖς ὁμωνυμίαις [prev. work] 36.)]
future -ήσω [LXX (LXX.4Ki.4.28, etc.)]:—passive and middle, future -ήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Mi.” 376c, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Peregr.” 16, -ηθήσομαι 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Demosthene” 9, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “VH” 2.27)]: aorist ἐπλανήθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 598, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.4, etc.)]: perfect πεπλάνημαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 565 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.16.β᾽, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 264c, etc.)]: (πλάνη):—Prose verb, ={πλάζω} (used once in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, also by Trag., 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus (see. below), and 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 10.15))], cause to wander, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 572 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.128.)]
2 lead from the subject, in talking, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.335.)]
3 lead astray, mislead, deceive, ἢ γνώμη πλαν; [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 316, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 356d, “Lg.” 655c, Theognetus Comicus 2.2, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 79; τὸν ὄχλον NT.John.7.12; τὸ ἀόριστον πλανᾷ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1415a14; τὰ μὴ πλανῶντα [prev. author] “Mete.” 347b35)]; πλανῶν τὴν ἔξοδον, of the Labyrinth, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus 3.1.4.)]
II passive, wander, stray, ἵπποι πλανόωνται ἀνὰ δρόμον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.321; ὅποι γῆς.. πεπλάνημαι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 565 (_anapaest meter_); π. εἰς πόλεις 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.97; κατὰ τὴν χώραν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.76; περὶ τὰ πεδία 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 264c: _absolutely_, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 347, etc.)]; of the planets, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 822a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 346a2, etc.: _metaphorically_, νοῦς ἐν αὑτῷ ὁ ἀληθινὸς πέφυκε πλανᾶσθαι 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.7.13)]; of reports, travel abroad, πολλὰ.. ἐμπόρων ἔπη φιλεῖ π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 304.)]
II.b c.accusative loci, πλανηθεὶς τήνδε βάρβαρον χθόνα having wandered over it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 598; πᾶσαν γῆν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lucullus” 34: c._accusative_ _cognate_, πολλοὺς ἑλιγμοὺς πλανώμενοι)] wandering about as in a labyrinth, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.3.4.)]
II.2 wander in speaking, π. ἐν τῷ λόγῳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.115)]; digress, π. ἀπὸ τοῦ λόγου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 263a.)]
II.3 with genitive, πλαναθεὶς καιροῦ having missed the right moment, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 8.4.)]
II.4 do a thing irregularly or with variation, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.52)]; ἐνύπνια τὰ ἐς ἀνθρώπους πεπλανημένα the varying dreams that visit them, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 7.16. β; πλανωμένη πρὸς ἄλλοτ᾽ ἄλλον πημονὴ προσιζάνει 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 277)]; πεπλανημένον τρόπον irregularly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προγνωστικόν” 24)]; to be unsettled, τὰ τῆς ἐλευθερίας ἔτι πλανώμενα καταστήματα [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“IG” 42(1).81.13 (Epid., 1st c.AD).)]
II.5 to be in doubt or at a loss, π. τὸ θέλει τὸ ἔπος εἶπαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.37: more frequently _absolutely_, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 473, etc.; π. καὶ ἀπορῶ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp. Ma.” 304c; ἡ ψυχὴ π. καὶ ταράττεται [prev. author] “Phd.” 79c)]; π. τῇ διανοίᾳ, ταῖς διανοίαις, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 15.52, “Ep.” 6.10; πεπλανημένην ἔχειν τὴν διάνοιαν [prev. author] 15.265; πλανωμένων θεραπεία παθῶν 2nd c.AD: Diogenes Oenoandensis Epicureus 27.)]
II.6 in forensic Rhet., χρώματα πεπλανημένα, μετάθεσις πεπ., of alternative pleas, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ τῶν στάσεων” 3.)]
II.7 to be misled, ὑπὸ φωνῆς κοινότητος [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 7; ταῖς ὁμωνυμίαις [prev. work] 36.)]