H4820: מִרְמָה
mirmâh · pronounced meer-maw' · “deceit”
Definition
fraud
KJV translates it as: craft, deceit(-ful, -fully), false, feigned, guile, subtilly, treachery.
Word origin: from H7411 (רָמָה) in the sense of deceiving;
Extended definition
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H4820 is translated
- deceit ×33
- deceits ×3
- treachery ×1
- are deceit ×1
- is deceit ×1
Bible verses with H4820 (mirmâh)
Mirmâh appears in 38 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 27:35
And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.
- Genesis 34:13
And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
- 2 Kings 9:23
And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.
- Job 15:35
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
- Job 31:5
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
- Psalms 5:6
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
- Psalms 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
- Psalms 17:1
A Prayer of David. Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
- Psalms 24:4
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
- Psalms 34:13
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
- Psalms 35:20
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
- Psalms 36:3
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
- 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.
- Psalms 43:1
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
- Psalms 50:19
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
- Psalms 52:4
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
- Psalms 55:11
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
- 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.
- 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.
- Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.
- Proverbs 12:5
The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
- Proverbs 12:17
He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
- Proverbs 12:20
Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
- Proverbs 14:8
The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
- Proverbs 14:25
A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.