What does μεθοδεία (methodeía) mean in the Bible?
μεθοδεία (methodeía): Cunning stratagem or deceitful scheme, especially manipulation through false teaching or deception
Greek · G3180
μεθοδεία
Scheme
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μεθοδεία G3180
Pronunciation methodeía
What does μεθοδεία (methodeía) mean in the Bible?
μεθοδεία (methodeía): Cunning stratagem or deceitful scheme, especially manipulation through false teaching or deception
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G3180?
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include schemes (1), scheming (1).
Where does μεθοδεία (methodeía) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Ephesians 4:14. Its strongest book concentrations include Ephesians (2).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It schemes 1× Ephesians 6:11
scheming 1× Ephesians 4:14
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Ephesians 4:14
Aligned rows 2
Books represented 1
Ephesians 2
Source forms
μεθοδείαν 1x methodeian Ephesians 4:14
μεθοδείας 1x methodeias Ephesians 6:11
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural 1x Ephesians 6:11
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular 1x Ephesians 4:14
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Cunning stratagem or deceitful scheme, especially manipulation through false teaching or deception
Strong's G3180
Lexical occurrences 2 verses Greek text appearances 2 times Word forms 2 forms 2 references Verse guides 0 guides
Study link Ephesians 4:7-16 Source Gloss
scheme
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
2 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Ephesians 4:14 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
μεθοδείαν meqodeian
scheming, craftiness
Read verse Ephesians 6:11 Noun Accusative Plural Feminine
μεθοδείας meqodeiav
scheming, craftiness
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 2 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 2 Aligned forms 2 Case pattern Accusative (2) Number pattern Plural (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Accusative · Singular · Feminine Eph 4:14 1×
Accusative · Plural · Feminine Eph 6:11 1×
Where It Appears in Scripture
Where this word appears in Scripture: passage, original form, and sense in context.
Biblical Witnesses
Cunning stratagems used by false teachers to deceive the spiritually immature
Deceptive tactics employed by spiritual adversaries against believers in spiritual warfare
Word Origins
μεθοδεία is built from these roots:
Part of These Phrases
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Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain