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

  1. Genesis 27:35
    And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.
  2. Genesis 34:13
    And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
  3. 2 Kings 9:23
    And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.
  4. Job 15:35
    They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
  5. Job 31:5
    If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
  6. Psalms 5:6
    Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
  7. Psalms 10:7
    His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
  8. Psalms 17:1
    Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
  9. Psalms 24:4
    He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
  10. Psalms 34:13
    Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
  11. Psalms 35:20
    For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
  12. Psalms 36:3
    The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
  13. Psalms 38:12
    They 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.
  14. Psalms 43:1
    Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
  15. Psalms 50:19
    Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
  16. Psalms 52:4
    Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
  17. Psalms 55:11
    Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
  18. Psalms 55:23
    But 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.
  19. Psalms 109:2
    For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
  20. Proverbs 11:1
    A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.
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