'Plotting' in the Bible
Immediately the Pharisees went out and started plotting with the Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him.
plotting against Him to catch Him in something He might say.
and said, “You [Elymas] who are full of every [kind of] deceit, and every [kind of] fraud, you son of the devil, enemy of everything that is right and good, will you never stop perverting the straight paths of the Lord?
serving the Lord in all humility, and with tears, and amid trials which came upon me through the plotting of the Jews--
asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.