Lie
כָּזָבStrong’s H3577kazav (ka-zav)
Appears in 31 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kazav is the Hebrew word usually translated “falsehood”, “lies” and “lies their”. It appears in 31 verses of the Old Testament.
“And both these kings’ hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.”
Meaning
- A lie, untruth, falsehood, deceptive thing
How it's translated
- falsehood 20
- lies 10
- lies their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 9
- Ezekiel 7
- Psalms 6
- Judges 2
- Isaiah 2
- Hosea 2
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 16:10And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.
- Judges 16:13And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.
- Psalms 4:2O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
- Psalms 5:6Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
- Psalms 40:4Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
- Psalms 58:3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Hebrew dictionary
כָּזָב kazav · lie
a lie, untruth, falsehood, deceptive thing
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.