ἀπάτη, -ys, ἡ. [fr- Hom. down], deceit, deceitfulness : Col. ii. 8; rod πλούτου, Mt. xiii. 22; Mk. iv. 19 ; τῆς ἀδικίας, 2 Th. ii. 10; τῆς ἁμαρτίας, Heb. iii. 13; ai ἐπιθυμίαι τῆς ἀπάτης the lusts excited by deceit, i.e. by deceitful influences seducing to sin, Eph. iv. 22, (others, ‘deceitful lusts’; but cf. Mey. ad loc.). Plur. ἀπάται: 2 Pet. ii. 13 (where L Tr txt. WH mrg. ἐν ἀγάπαις), by a paragram (or verbal play) applied to the agapae or love-feasts (cf. ἀγάπη, 2), because these were transformed by base men into seductive revels.

ἀπάτη apatē 7x

deceit, deception, delusion

ἀπάτη, -ης, ἡ,

[in LXX: Ec 9:6 א (no Heb. equiv.), Jth 9:3, 10, 13 16:8, IV Mac 18:8*;]

deceit, deceitfulness: Col 2:8; τοῦ πλούτου, Mt 13:22, Mk 4:19 (MM, VGT, s.v.); τῆς ἀδικίας, II Th 2:10; τῆς ἁμαρτίας, He 3:13; αἱ ἐπιθυμίαι τῆς ἀ., Eph 4:22. pl., ἀπάται (v. M, II Th. 2:10; NTD, 75; MM, VGT, s.v.): II Pe 2:13 (WH, mg., R., txt., ἐν ἀγάπαις).†

ἀπάτη. For ἀ. = ‘‘deceit”’ (as 4 Macc 188, 2 Th 219, Heb 3:5) cf. P Oxy VII. 10207f (A.D. 198-201) εἰ τὴν ἐκ τῆς ἡ[λικίας] ἔχεις βοήθιαν, τὸν ἀγῶνα τῆς ἀπάτης ὁ ἡγούμ[ε]νος τοῦ ἔθνους ἐκδι[κ]ήσει, ““1 you can claim the assistance due to immature age, the prefect of the province shall decide the suit for fraud” (Ed.). So CPHerm 6° viv δὲ οἱ μὲν [μετ᾿ ἀπάτης εἰσποιοῦ[ντ]αι, if the supplement is right. Attention may be called to Deissmann’s note in his Hellenisterung des semvttischen Monothetsmus (Neue Jahrb. f. d. klass. Altertum, 1903), Ρ. 165 n.: he recalls the fact that ἀπάτη in popular Hellenistic had the meaning ‘‘ pleasure,” and finds this in Mt 1323 = Mk 413 (cf. Lk 8132) and 2 Pet 2!8: cf. Polyb.:ii. 5612 and Moeris’ definition (p. 65)—Amarn’ ἡ πλάνη παρ᾽ Artikois .. . ἡ τέρψις map’ “Ἕλλησιν. Of this rare sense Rouffac (p. 38 f.) cites a probable instance from “γεγο 113°4 (B.C. 84) κα[τατιθ]εὶς δὲ μὴ μόνον τὰ πρὸς ἡδον[ήν, ἀλλὰ καὶ βουλόμενος] ἐκ τ]ὸς ἀπάτην χορηγῆσαι [τοῖς θεαταῖς, αὐλητήν 37, where he renders, ‘‘il ne fit pas seulement ce qui était agréable, mais voulant en outre offrir une réjouissance aux spectateurs (il fit venir [un joueur de flite?]).” It may be added that in P Petr III. 11% ᾿Απάτη appears as a proper name, where (as in other cases) we may safely assume the ‘‘ Hellenistic” meaning. But the word must have really covered both, like our verb ‘‘ beguile”? ; and ἀπατάω would tend to keep the older sense to the front. If it is derived from a root akin to our find (see Boisacq s. v.), it meant ‘‘ invention, discovery” at the start, and was then turned 77 malam partem, to be partially reformed in later vernacular.

ἀπάτη (apatē) — deceit. ἀπᾰτ-η, ἡ, trick, fraud, deceit, νῦν δὲ κακὴν ἀπάτην βουλεύσατο[Refs 8th c.BC+]: in plural, wiles, οὐκ ἄρ᾽ ἔμελλες.. λήξειν ἀπατάων, says Athena to Ulysses, [Refs 8th c.BC+]

2. guile, treachery, ἄταν ἀπάτᾳ μεταγνούς[Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. εὐπρεπής, opposed to βία ἐμφανής, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. λεχέων a being cheated out of the marriage, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄνευ δόλου καὶ ἀπάτης 'without fraud or covin', [Refs 5th c.BC+]

3. Ἀπάτη, personified, [Refs 8th c.BC+]

II. beguiling of time, pastime (not Attic dialect, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

III. as name of a plant, falsa lectio for{ἀπάπη} (which see).