Definition

objectively, fraudulence; subjectively, a straying from orthodoxy or piety

Etymology

feminine of G4108 (πλάνος) (as abstractly);

Word family

• πλάνος plános

How the KJV renders it

• deceit
• to deceive
• delusion
• error

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.