Deceit
מִרְמָהStrong’s H4820mirmah (mir-mah)
Appears in 38 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mirmah is the Hebrew word usually translated “deceit”, “treachery” and “on deceit”. It appears in 38 verses of the Old Testament.
“And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.”
Meaning
- Deceit, treachery
How it's translated
- deceit 26
- and deceit 7
- with deceit 2
- treachery 1
- to deceit 1
- on deceit 1
- and with deceit 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 14
- Proverbs 8
- Jeremiah 3
- Genesis 2
- Job 2
- Daniel 2
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 11:23In contextAnd after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
- Genesis 27:35And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.
- Genesis 34:13And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
- 2 Kings 9:23And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.
- Job 15:35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
- Job 31:5If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
Hebrew dictionary
מִרְמָה mirmah · deceit
deceit, treachery
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “treachery” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TREACHERY, noun
trech'ery. Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence. The man who betrays his country in any manner, violates his allegiance, and is guilty of treachery This is treason. The man who violates his faith pledged to his friend, or betrays a trust in which a promise of fidelity is implied, is guilty of treachery The disclosure of a secret committed to one in confidence, is treachery This is perfidy.
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.