Guile
מַשָּׁאוֹןStrong’s H4860mashshaon (mash-sha-on)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Mashshaon is the Hebrew word usually translated “deception”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.”
Meaning
- Guile, dissimulation, deceit
How it's translated
- with deception 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מַשָּׁאוֹן mashshaon · guile
guile, dissimulation, deceit
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “guile” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GUILE, noun
gile. Craft; cunning; artifice; duplicity; deceit; usually in a bad sense.
- “Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile” John 1:47
All definitions and other forms of “guile”
GUILE, verb transitive
To disguise craftily.
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.