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# תׇּרְמִית

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8649

**deceitfulness** — used 5 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

deceitfulness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8649/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּרְמִית: n.f. deceitfulness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8649/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. deceitfulness;—abs. לְשׁוֹן תּ׳ Zp 3:13 (‖ עַוְלָה, כָּזָב), תַּרְמִת Je 8:5; cstr. תַּרְמִית לִבָּם 14:14 Qr (\> Kt תרבות), תַּרְמִת לִבָּם 23:26 (‖ שֶׁקֶר); sf. שֶׁקֶר תַּרְמִיתָם the falseness of their calumny ψ 119:118.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 119:118](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.118/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.118/#tree)

סָ֭לִיתָ כָּל־שׁוֹגִ֣ים מֵחֻקֶּ֑יךָ כִּי־שֶׁ֝֗קֶר תַּרְמִיתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* you.reject all \[those.who\].go.astray from decrees your (dm) \[is\].falsehood deceitfulness their

*JPS 1917:* Thou hast made light of all them that err from Thy statutes; for their deceit is vain.

[Jeremiah 8:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.8.5/#tree)

מַדּ֨וּעַ שׁוֹבְבָ֜ה הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּ֛ה יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם מְשֻׁבָ֣ה נִצַּ֑חַת הֶחֱזִ֙יקוּ֙ בַּתַּרְמִ֔ית מֵאֲנ֖וּ לָשֽׁוּב׃

*Word for word:* why? has.it.turned.away the people (the) this Jerusalem apostasy enduring they.have.kept.hold on (the) deceitfulness they.have.refused to return

*JPS 1917:* Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8649/): 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).