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# כָּזַב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3576

**lie** — used 16 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

lie [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3576/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּזַב: vb. lie, be liar Niph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3576/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. lie, be a liar (Arabic كَذَبَ Aramaic כְּדַב ܟܕܰܒ id. chiefly Pa.; NH כָּזַב)— Pt. כָּל־הָאָדָם כֹּזֵב ψ 116:11 (cf. כָּזָב 62:10). Pf. 3 fs. תֹּחַלְתּוֹ נִכְזָ֑בָה Jb 41:1 his hope has been made deceptive, i.e. been shewn to be so; 2 ms. consec. וְנִכְזָ֑בְתָּ Pr 30:6 lest he convict thee and thou be proved a liar. Pf. 3 ms. כִּזֵּב Mi 2:11; Impf. 3 ms. יְכַזֵּב Hb 2:3 Pr 14:5; וִיכַזֵּב Nu 23:19, etc.; Inf. cstr. sf. (בְּ)כַזֶּבְכֶם Ez 13:19;— lie, tell a lie, abs., Nu 23:19 (JE), Mi 2:11 Jb 6:28; 34:6 Pr 14:5 Is 57:11; sq. לְ pers. lie to Ez 13:19 ψ 78:36; 89:36; sq. בְּ pers. tell a lie with, i.e. in intercourse, converstion with 2 K 4:16. disappoint, fail, of a divine revelation Hb 2:3; waters of a spring Is 58:11. Impf. 3 ms. sf. יַכְזִיבֵנִי Jb 24:25 who will make me a liar? i.e. prove me to be so (cf. Niph.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I will lie (2); \[is\] a liar (1); he tells lies (1).

## In the verses

[Job 34:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.6/#tree)

עַל־מִשְׁפָּטִ֥י אֲכַזֵּ֑ב אָנ֖וּשׁ חִצִּ֣י בְלִי־פָֽשַׁע׃

*Word for word:* on right my will.I.lie? \[is\].incurable arrow my not transgression

*JPS 1917:* Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.'

[Psalms 89:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.36/#tree)

אַ֭חַת נִשְׁבַּ֣עְתִּי בְקָדְשִׁ֑י אִֽם־לְדָוִ֥ד אֲכַזֵּֽב׃

*Word for word:* one.\[time\] I.have.sworn.an.oath by holiness my if to David I.will.lie

*JPS 1917:* Once have I sworn by My holiness: Surely I will not be false unto David;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3576.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3576/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).