# G1917 ἐπιβουλή

ἐπιβουλή (epiboulḗ), Strong’s G1917: a plan against someone, i.e. a plot KJV: laying (lying) in wait. Occurs 10 times.

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*epiboulḗ* — a plan against someone, i.e. a plot

KJV: laying (lying) in wait

Built from [ἐπί epí](https://besorah.bible/word/G1909) (meaning superimposition) + [βούλομαι boúlomai](https://besorah.bible/word/G1014) (to "will,")

Occurs 10 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Acts 9:24](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/9?v=24) — but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,
- [Acts 20:3](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/20?v=3) — When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he…
- [Acts 20:19](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/20?v=19) — serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;
- [Acts 23:30](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/23?v=30) — When I was told that the Judeans lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to…
- [1 Esdras 8:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-esdras/8?v=22) — I command you also that no tax, nor any other imposition, be laid upon any of the priests, or Levites, or holy singers…
- [2 Maccabees 5:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/2-maccabees/5?v=7) — He didn’t win control of the government, but receiving shame as the result of his conspiracy, he fled again as a…
- [3 Maccabees 1:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/3-maccabees/1?v=2) — And one Theodotus, intending to carry out his design, took with him the bravest of the armed men who had been before…
- [3 Maccabees 1:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/3-maccabees/1?v=6) — Having vanquished this attempt, the king then decided to proceed to the neighboring cities, and encourage them.
- [4 Maccabees 4:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/4-maccabees/4?v=13) — Onias the high priest, induced by these words, although for other reasons anxious that King Seleucus wouldn’t suppose…