Dictionaries :: Deceiver

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Deceiver:

is, properly, an adjective, signifying "wandering, or leading astray, seducing," 1Ti 4:1, "seducing (spirits);" used as a noun, it denotes an impostor of the vagabond type, and so any kind of "deceiver" or corrupter, Mat 27:63; 2Cr 6:8; 2Jo 1:7 (twice), in the last of which the accompanying definite article necessitates the translation "the deceiver," RV.
See SEDUCE.

Deceiver:

akin to C, No. 3, under DECEIVE, lit., "a mind-deceiver," is used in Tts 1:10.

Note: For "the deceiver," in Rev 12:9, see DECEIVE, C, No. 6.