Definition

a plan against someone, i.e. a plot

Etymology

from a presumed compound of G1909 (ἐπί) and G1014 (βούλομαι);

Word family

• ἐπί epí
• βούλομαι boúlomai

How the KJV renders it

• laying (lying) in wait

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.