Delusion
תֵּעְתֻּעִיםStrong’s H8595tatua (ta-tu-a)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tatua is the Hebrew word usually translated “mockery”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.”
Meaning
- Errors, delusions
- (BDB) mockery
How it's translated
- mockery 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
תֵּעְתֻּעִים tatua · delusion
1) errors, delusions 2) (BDB) mockery
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “delusion” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DELUSION, noun
S as z.
- The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind.
- False representation; illusion; error or mistake proceeding from false views.
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.