To lie
כָּזַבStrong’s H3576kazav (ka-zav)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kazav is the Hebrew word usually translated “lie”, “so he may lie” and “tell a lie”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”
Meaning
- To lie, tell a lie, be a liar, be found a liar, be in vain, fail(Qal) liar (participle) · (Niphal) to be proven to be lying · (Piel) · (Hiphil) to make a liar, prove to be a liar
How it's translated
- i will lie 2
- so he may lie 1
- you tell a lie 1
- will he prove a liar me 1
- will i lie 1
- it is proved a lie 1
- they lied 1
- a liar 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 4
- Psalms 3
- Proverbs 2
- Isaiah 2
- Numbers 1
- 2 Kings 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 4:16And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
- Job 6:28Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
- Job 24:25And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
- Job 34:6Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
- Job 41:9Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
- Psalms 78:36Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
Hebrew dictionary
כָּזַב kazav · to lie
1) to lie, tell a lie, be a liar, be found a liar, be in vain, fail 1a) (Qal) liar (participle) 1b) (Niphal) to be proven to be lying 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to lie, tell a lie, tell a lie with, deceive 1c2) to disappoint, fail 1d) (Hiphil) to make a liar, prove to be a liar
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lie” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LIE, noun
- A criminal falsehood; a falsehood uttered for the purpose of deception; an intentional violation of truth.
- A fiction; in a ludicrous sense.
- False doctrine. 1
- An idolatrous picture of God, or a false god. Romans 1:25
All definitions and other forms of “lie”
- That which deceives and disappoints confidence.
LIE, verb intransitive
- To utter falsehood with an intention to deceive, or with an immoral design.“Thou hast not lied to men, but to God” Acts 5:4
- To exhibit a false representation; to say or do that which deceives another, when he has a right to know the truth, or when morality requires a just representation.
LIE, verb intransitive
preterit tense lay; participle passive lain, [lien, obsolete ] [The Gr. word usually signifies to speak, which is to utter or throw out sounds. Hence to lie down is to throw one's self down, and probably lie and lay are of one family, as are jacio and jacceo, in Latin.]
- To be in a horizontal position, or nearly so, and to rest on any thing lengthwise, and not on the end.
- To rest in an inclining posture; to lean; as, to lie on or against a column.
- To rest; to press on.
- To be reposited in the grave.“All the kings of the earth, even all of them, lie in glory” Isaiah 14:18
- To rest on a bed or couch; to be prostrate; as, to lie sick.“My little daughter lieth at the point of death” Mark 5:23
- To be situated.
- To be; to rest; to abide; to remain; often followed by some word denoting a particular condition; as, to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hid; to lie pining or grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of a creditor, or at the mercy of the waves.
- To consist.
- To be sustainable in law; to be capable of being maintained.
- To lie by, to be reposited, or remaining with.
- To rest; to intermit labor.
- To lie with, to lodge or sleep with; also, to have carnal knowledge of.
- To belong to.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.