Strong's Greek #1455 - ἐγκάθετος, ου, ὁ, ἡ egkathetos (hired to lie in wait)

spy.

From en and a derivative of kathiemi; subinduced, i.e. Surreptitiously suborned as a lier-in-wait -- spy.

see GREEK en

see GREEK kathiemi

Strong's 1455: ἐγκάθετος

ἐγκάθετος (T WH ἐνκαθετος, see ἐν, III. 3), ἐγκαθετου ὁ ἡ (ἐγκαθίημι (to send down in (secretly))), suborned to lie in wait; a lier-in-wait, a spy, (cf. Latininsidiator; English "insidious): used in Luke 20:20 of one who is suborned by others to entrap a man by crafty words. (Plato, Ax., p. 368 e.; Demosthenes, p. 1483, 1; Josephus, b. j. 6, 5, 2; Polybius 13, 5, 1, others; the Sept., Job (); .)

Strong's Greek: 1455. ἐγκάθετος (egkathetos) — 1 Occurrence

Luke 20:20 - Adj-AMP
GRK: παρατηρήσαντες ἀπέστειλαν ἐνκαθέτους ὑποκρινομένους ἑαυτοὺς
NAS: Him, and sent spies who pretended
KJV: [him], and sent forth spies, which should feign
INT: having watched [him] they sent spies feigning themselves