Deceit
רְמִיָּהStrong’s H7423remiyyah (re-miy-yah)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Remiyyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “deceit”, “idleness” and “slackness”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?”
Meaning
- Deceit, treachery
- Laxness, slackness, slackening
How it's translated
- deceit 9
- idleness 2
- slackness 2
- laxness 1
- and idleness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 6
- Proverbs 4
- Job 2
- Jeremiah 1
- Hosea 1
- Micah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 27:4My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
- Psalms 32:2Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
- Psalms 52:2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
- Psalms 78:57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
- Psalms 101:7He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
- Psalms 120:2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
Hebrew dictionary
רְמִיָּה remiyyah · deceit
deceit, treachery
רְמִיָּה remiyyah · slackness
laxness, slackness, slackening
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “idleness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
I'DLENESS, noun
Abstinence from labor or employment; the state of a person who is unemployed in labor, or unoccupied in business; the state of doing nothing. idleness is the parent of vice.
- “Through the idleness of the hands the house droppeth through” Ecclesiastes 10:18
- Aversion to labor; reluctance to be employed, or to exertion either of body or mind; laziness; sloth; sluggishness.
- Unimportance; trivialness.
- Inefficacy; uselessness. [Little used.]
All definitions
- Barrenness; worthlessness. [Little used.]
- Emptiness; foolishness; infatuation; as idleness of brain. [Little used.]
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.