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Recklessness

פַּחֲזוּתStrong’s H6350

pachazut (pa-cha-zut)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Pachazut is the Hebrew word usually translated “recklessness their”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.”
Jeremiah 23:32 KJV
Meaning
  1. Recklessness, extravagance, frivolity
How it's translated
  • and by recklessness their 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Jeremiah 1

1 book in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
    Hebrew dictionary

    פַּחֲזוּת pachazut · recklessness

    recklessness, extravagance, frivolity

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “recklessness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    RECK'LESSNESS, noun

    Heedlessness; carelessness; negligence.

      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.