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Strong's #1185 - δελεάζω
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- to bait, catch by a bait
- metaph. to beguile by blanishments, allure, entice, deceive
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δελε-άζω,
(δέλεαρ)
I entice or catch by a bait, τὴν γραῦν δ. λεπαστῇ Antiph. 45, cf. Hdn. 2.15.3; δ. τινὰς ἐπὶ πλεονεξίαν Onos. 6.10: — Pass., γαστρὶ δελεάζεσθαι X. Mem. 2.1.4, cf. Isoc. 8.34, Epicur. Sent. Vat. 16, Phld. Lib. p.14O.; ῥᾳστώνῃ καὶ σχολῇ D. 18.45; ὑπὸ χρημάτων, ὑπὸ τῆς ἡδονῆς, Luc. Apol. 9, Jul. Or. 6.185a.
II c. acc. cogn., νῶτον ὑὸς περὶ ἄγκιστρον δ. put it on the hook as a bait, Hdt. 2.70; but δ. ἄγκιστρον ἰσχάδι bait it with a fig, Luc. Pisc. 47; δ. ἄγκιστρον ἐπ' ἄλλους to catch others. ib. 48.
δελεάζω; (present passive δελεάζομαι); (δέλεαρ a bait);
1. properly, to bait, catch by a bait: Xenophon, mem. 2, 1, 4, et al.
2. as often in secular authors, metaphorically, to beguile by blandishments, allure, entice, deceive: τινα, 2 Peter 2:14, 18; James 1:14, on this passage cf. Philo, quod omn. prob. book § 22.
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*δελεάζω
(< δέλεαρ , a bait),
to allure by a bait: metaph., to allure, entice: c. acc, 2 Peter 2:14; 2 Peter 2:18; pass., James 1:14.†
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