Lie in wait - Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Lie in wait

[ A-1,Verb,G1748, enedreuo ]
to lie in wait for, to lay wait for" (from en, "in," and hedra, "a seat," cp. B), occurs in Luke 11:54, "laying wait for;" Acts 23:21, "there lie in wait for."

Note: In Acts 23:30, the word epiboule, "a plot," necessitates the RV "(that there would be) a plot." For Ephesians 4:14, AV, See WILES.

[ B-1,Noun,1747 / 1749,enedra / enedron ] akin to A, "a lying in wait, an ambush," occurs in Acts 23:16 (where some mss. have the form enedron); Acts 25:3, "laying wait," lit., "making an ambush." In the Sept., Joshua 8:7, Joshua 8:9; Psalms 10:8.

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