Deception
מַֽהֲתַלּוֹתStrong’s H4123mahatallah (ma-ha-tal-lah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Mahatallah is the Hebrew word usually translated “deception”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:”
Meaning
- Deceptions, illusions
How it's translated
- deception 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מַֽהֲתַלּוֹת mahatallah · deception
deceptions, illusions
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “deception” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DECEP'TION, noun
- The act of deceiving or misleading.
- The state of being deceived or misled.
- Artifice practiced; cheat; as, a scheme is alla deception
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.