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# רְמִיָּה

Biblical Hebrew

**deceit** — used 9 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/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5de_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רְמִיָּה: n.f. deceit, treachery [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5de_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. deceit, treachery;—always abs. ר׳;—deceit, treachery: especially of speech, pred. of לָשׁוֹן Mi 6:12 (‖ שֶׁקֶר), appos. of לָשׁוֹן (or read לְשֹׁוֹן?) ψ 120:2 (‖ שְׂפַת שֶׁקֶר), v 3; of man, עֹשֵׂה ר׳ 52:4 that workest treachery, 101:7 (‖ דֹּבֵר שְׁקָרִים); also Jb 13:7; 27:4 (both ‖ עַוְלָה); deception ψ 32:2 (‖ עָוֹן); in phr. קֶשֶׁת ר׳ treacherous bow (sim.) Ho 7:16 ψ 78:57 (failing him who trusts to it).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (16 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: deceit (5); (of) deceit (2); \[is\] deceit (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 52:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.52.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.52.4/#tree)

הַ֭וּוֹת תַּחְשֹׁ֣ב לְשׁוֹנֶ֑ךָ כְּתַ֥עַר מְ֝לֻטָּ֗שׁ עֹשֵׂ֥ה רְמִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* destruction(s) it.plots tongue your like a.razor sharpened O.\[you.who\].do (of).deceit

*JPS 1917:* Thy tongue deviseth destruction; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

[Job 13:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.7/#tree)

הַ֭לְאֵל תְּדַבְּר֣וּ עַוְלָ֑ה וְ֝ל֗וֹ תְּֽדַבְּר֥וּ רְמִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* ? for God will.you.speak unrighteousness and for him will.you.speak? deceit

*JPS 1917:* Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for Him?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5de_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/lemma_3a_5e8_5b0_5de_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4/): 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).