Lie in wait

New Testament

Vine's Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words

Definition

A-1enedreuoVerbG1748

"to lie in wait for, to lay wait for" (from en, "in," and hedra, "a seat," cp. B), occurs in Luk 11:54, "laying wait for;" Act 23:21, "there lie in wait for."

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

akin to A, "a lying in wait, an ambush," occurs in Act 23:16 (where some mss. have the form enedron); Act 25:3, "laying wait," lit., "making an ambush." In the Sept., Jos 8:7, Jos 8:9, Psa 10:8.