Strong H4820מִרְמָה
deceit
- Transliteration
- mirmâh
- Pronunciation
- meer-maw'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Feminine)
Definition
From H7411 in the sense of deceiving; fraud: - {craft} deceit ({-ful} {-fully}) {false} {feigned} {guile} {subtilly} treachery.
Detailed definition
deceit, treachery
In the Bible
Strong H4820 appears in 38 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- deceit20
- deceitful8
- deceitfully3
- false2
- guile2
- craft1
- feign1
- subtilty1
- treachery1
First verses
- Genesis 27:35And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.
- Genesis 34:13And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
- 2 Kings 9:23And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.
- Job 15:35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
- Job 31:5If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
- Psalms 5:6Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
- Psalms 10:7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
- Psalms 17:1Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
- Psalms 24:4He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
- Psalms 34:13Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
- Psalms 35:20For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
- Psalms 36:3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
- Psalms 38:12They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
- Psalms 43:1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
- Psalms 50:19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
- Psalms 52:4Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
- Psalms 55:11Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
- Psalms 55:23But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
- Psalms 109:2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
- Proverbs 11:1A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.