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# מִרְמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4820

**deceit** — used 39 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

deceit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4820/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִרְמָה³: n.f. deceit, treachery [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4820/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. deceit, treachery;—abs. מ׳ Am 8:5 +; pl. abs. מִרְמוֹת ψ 10:7 +;—deceit, of balances, מֹאזְנֵי מ׳ i.e. deceptive balances Am 8:5 (‖ שֶׁקֶר), Ho 12:8; Pr 11:1 (opp. אֶבֶן שְׁלֵמָה), 20:23, אַבְנֵי מ׳ Mi 6:11 (v. \[מאזן\] p. 24); especially treachery, craftiness, 2 K 9:23, בְּמ׳ treacherously, Gn 27:35 (J), and (of crafty speech) 34:13 (P); שִׂפְתֵי מ׳ ψ 17:1 i.e. treacherous lips, לְשׁוֹן מ׳ 52:6, פִּי מ׳ 109:2 (‖ לְשׁוֹן שָׁ֑קֶר), דִּבְרֵי מִרְמוֹת 35:20, נִשְׁבַע לְמ׳ ψ 24:4 (‖ לַשָּׁוְא); cf. Is 53:9 (‖ חָמָם); also Ho 12:1 (‖ כַּחַשׁ), Je 5:27; 9:5(×2), 7; Zp 1:9 (+ חָמָם), ψ 10:7 (+ תֹּךְ, ‖ עָמָל וָאָוֶן), 34:14; 36:4 (+ אָוֶן), 38:13; 50:19; 55:12 (+ תֹּךְ), Jb 15:35; 31:5 (‖ שָׁוְא), Pr 12:20; 14:8; 26:24 Dn 8:25; opp. מִשְׁפָּט Pr 12:5, + עֵד שְׁקָרִים v 17, + יָפִחַ כְּזָבִים 14:25 (Hi Wild Toy read מְדַמֶּה for מרמה, but II. דמה not elsewhere Pi); אִישׁ דָּמִים וּמ׳ ψ 5:7 (‖ דֹּבְרֵי כָזָב), cf. 55:24, אִישׁ מ׳ וְעַוְלָה 43:1; יַעֲשֶׂה מ׳ Dn 11:23.—ii. מִרְמָה n.pr. v. p. 599.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 38 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: deceit (24); of deceit (9); deceit(s) (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 52:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.52.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.52.6/#tree)

אָהַ֥בְתָּ כָֽל־דִּבְרֵי־בָ֗לַע לְשׁ֣וֹן מִרְמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* you.love all words of.swallowing a.tongue of.deceit

*JPS 1917:* Thou lovest all devouring words, the deceitful tongue.

[Proverbs 12:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.5/#tree)

מַחְשְׁב֣וֹת צַדִּיקִ֣ים מִשְׁפָּ֑ט תַּחְבֻּל֖וֹת רְשָׁעִ֣ים מִרְמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].plans of.righteous.\[people\] \[are\].justice \[the\].guidance(s) of.wicked.\[people\] \[are\].deceit

*JPS 1917:* The thoughts of the righteous are right; but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4820.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4820/): 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).