Conspiracy
קֶ֫שֶׁרStrong’s H7195qesher (qe-sher)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qesher is the Hebrew word usually translated “treason”, “conspiracy” and “conspiracy his”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.”
Meaning
- Conspiracy, treason, (unlawful) alliance
How it's translated
- treason 5
- a conspiracy 5
- and conspiracy his 2
- conspiracy 2
- the conspiracy 1
- a conspiracy of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 6
- 2 Chronicles 2
- 2 Samuel 1
- 1 Kings 1
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 16:20Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he wrought, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 2 Kings 11:14And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
- 2 Kings 12:20And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
- 2 Kings 14:19Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
- 2 Kings 15:15And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
- 2 Kings 15:30And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
Hebrew dictionary
קֶ֫שֶׁר qesher · conspiracy
conspiracy, treason, (unlawful) alliance
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “conspiracy” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CONSPIRACY, noun
[Latin See Conspire.]
- A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement between two or more persons, to commit some crime in concert; particularly, a combination to commit treason, or excite sedition or insurrection against the government of a state; a plot; as a conspiracy against the life of a king; a conspiracy against the government.“More than forty had made this conspiracy” Acts 23:13
- In law, an agreement between two or more persons, falsely and maliciously to indict, or procure to be indicted, an innocent person of felony.
- A concurrence; a general tendency of two or more causes to one event.
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.