'Plotting' in the Bible

So it happened that the Jews who were living near them came and warned us repeatedly about all the schemes they were plotting against us.

All day long they cause me trouble; they make a habit of plotting my demise.

How long will they go on plotting to make my people forget who I am through the dreams they tell one another? That is just as bad as what their ancestors did when they forgot who I am by worshiping the god Baal.

They approach him, all the while plotting against him. Their hearts are like an oven; their anger smolders all night long, but in the morning it bursts into a flaming fire.

So the Pharisees went out immediately and began plotting with the Herodians, as to how they could assassinate him.

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