kubeia denotes the deceptive cunning attributed to people whose schemes mislead others.

The attested use places kubeia within a warning against being carried about by teaching associated with human deception and deceitful schemes.

1. Deceptive human scheming · dominant

   In Ephesians 4:14, the dative singular feminine form occurs in the warning about being carried about by every wind of doctrine; the APB renders the surrounding clause “by the cunning of men, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.”

   Ephesians 4:14

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Ephesians 4:14, the APB presents the clause as “by the cunning of men, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.” The precise division of those English phrases cannot be fixed from the rendering alone.