Luke 11:54
Strong's Lexicon
waiting
ἐνεδρεύοντες (enedreuontes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 1748: To lie in wait (ambush) for, seek to entrap (hence: I defraud, deceive). From enedra; to lurk, i.e. plot assassination.

to catch
θηρεῦσαί (thēreusai)
Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active
Strong's Greek 2340: To hunt, seek to catch or entrap; met: I lay hold of. From thera; to hunt, i.e. to carp at.

Him
αὐτὸν (auton)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

in something
τι (ti)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 5100: Any one, some one, a certain one or thing. An enclitic indefinite pronoun; some or any person or object.

He might say
ἐκ (ek)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

αὐτοῦ (autou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

τοῦ (tou)
Article - Genitive Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

στόματος (stomatos)
Noun - Genitive Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 4750: The mouth, speech, eloquence in speech, the point of a sword.

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
waiting to catch Him in something He might say.

Young's Literal Translation
laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
they were lying in wait for Him to trap Him in something He said .

New American Standard Bible
plotting against Him to catch [Him] in something He might say.

King James Bible
Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
waiting to catch him in something he might say.

New Living Translation
They wanted to trap him into saying something they could use against him.

English Standard Version
lying in wait for him, to catch him in something he might say.

New American Standard Bible
plotting against Him to catch Him in something He might say.

King James Bible
Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
they were lying in wait for Him to trap Him in something He said.

International Standard Version
They watched him closely in an effort to trap him in something he might say.

NET Bible
plotting against him, to catch him in something he might say.

American Standard Version
laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mouth.

English Revised Version
laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mouth.

Young's Literal Translation
laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
















Cross References
2 Kings 5:7
And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.

Mark 3:2
And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.

Mark 12:13
And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.

Luke 11:53
And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:

Luke 20:20
And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.

Luke 20:26
And they could not take hold of his words before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.

Acts 23:21
But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.

Luke 1:1
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,

Luke 11:52
Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

Luke 11:51
From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.

Luke 12:1
In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
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