Greek words used in original Biblical manuscripts of first century
Μεθοδεία.

METHOD, an anglicized word from greek

METHOD ^G3180  EPH 6:11, WILES; 4:14, LIE IN WAIT

Μεθοδεία ^G3180   methodeia   meth-od-i'-ah

STRONG’S GREEK AND HEBREW DICTIONARIES: “From a compound of G3326 and G3593 [compare “method”]; traveling over, that is, travesty, (trickery): - wile, lie in wait.”

THAYER’S GREEK DEFINITIONS:  1) cunning arts, deceit, craft, trickery

Part of Speech: noun feminine

FROM G3326  μετά  meta  Thayer Definition:  1) with, after, behind

& G3593  ὁδεύω   hodeuō  Thayer Definition:   1) to travel, journey

Total KJV occurrences: 2 translations of method ^G3180

(1)  wiles == Ephesians 6:11 “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” 

(2)  lie in wait == Ephesians 4:14 “That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;”

ENGLISH definition:  WEBSTER, “Method”

METH'OD, n. [Latin, methodus; Greek: with, and way.]

1. A suitable and convenient arrangement of things, proceedings or ideas; the natural or regular disposition of separate things or parts; convenient order for transacting business, or for comprehending any complicated subject. Without method, business of any kind will fall into confusion. To carry on farming to advantage, to keep accounts correctly, method is indispensable.

2. Way; manner. Let us know the nature of the disease, and the method of cure.

3. Classification; arrangement of natural bodies according to their common characteristics; as the method of Theophrast; the method of Ray; the Linnean method.

In natural arrangements a distinction is sometimes made between method and system. System is an arrangement founded, throughout all its parts, on some one principle. Method is an arrangement less fixed and determinate, and founded on more general relations. Thus we say, the natural method, and the artificial or sexual system of Linne, though the latter is not a perfect system.

ETYMOLOGY OF Anglicized “METHOD”

method (n.)

early 15^th century, "regular, systematic treatment of disease," from Latin methodus "way of teaching or going," from Greek methodos "scientific inquiry, method of inquiry, investigation," originally "pursuit, a following after,"

           from meta "in pursuit or quest of"

           + hodos "a method, system; a way or manner" (of doing, saying, etc.), also "a traveling, journey," literally "a path, track, road," a word of uncertain origin (compare “Exodus”).

From 1580s - Meaning "any way of doing anything, orderly regulation of conduct with a view to the attainment of an end; that of "orderliness, regularity" is from 1610s. Meaning "a system or complete sent of rules for attaining an end" is from 1680s. In reference to a theory of acting associated with Russian director Konstantin Stanislavski (1863-1938), it is attested from 1923.