STRONGS G3180:
μεθοδεία (
T WH μεθοδια, see Iota),
μεθοδείας,
ἡ (from
μεθοδεύω, i. e.
1. to follow up or investigate by method and settled plan;
2. to follow craftily, frame devices, deceive:
Diodorus 7, 16;
2 Samuel 19:27; (
Exodus 21:13 Aq.; (middle)
Chariton 7, 6, p. 166, 21 edition Reiske (1783);
Polybius 38, 4, 10)), a noun occuring neither in the O. T. nor in secular authors,
cunning arts, deceit, craft, trickery:
ἡ μεθοδεία τῆς πλάνης, which
ἡ πλάνη uses,
Ephesians 4:14;
τοῦ διαβόλου, plural,
Ephesians 6:11 (
A. V. wiles. Cf.
Lightfoot,
Polycarp, ad Phil. 7 [ET], p. 918.)
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