kazav · lie, falsehood

What it means

kazav (כָּזָב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lie, falsehood”.

A lie, falsehood: what is said or sought and is not true; also something that deceives because it promises and does not deliver.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A false word or teaching that makes people believe what is not so.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• lies ×21
• lie ×6
• lying ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Psalms×6
• Proverbs×9
• Isaiah×2
• Ezekiel×7
• Daniel×1
• Hosea×2
• Amos×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Psalms 4:2

  Sons of man, how long will my honor be turned into humiliation? How long will you love what is vain and seek a lie? Selah.

• Psalms 5:6

  You destroy those who speak lies; the man of blood and deceit YHWH abhors.

• Psalms 40:4

  Happy is the man who has made YHWH his trust, and has not turned to the arrogant or to those who go astray after a lie.

• Psalms 58:3

  The wicked have turned aside from the womb; they have gone astray from the belly, those who speak lies.

• Psalms 62:4

  Only from his height they have resolved to push him down; they delight in lies; with their mouth they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah.

• Psalms 62:9

  Only vapor are human beings, a lie are the sons of man; on going up in the scales, they are together lighter than vapor.

• Proverbs 6:19

  one who breathes out lies, a false witness, and one who sends out quarrels among brothers.

• Proverbs 14:5

  A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness utters lies.

• Proverbs 14:25

  A witness of truth delivers souls, but one who utters lies is deceit.

• Proverbs 19:5

  A witness of lies will not go unpunished, and whoever utters lies will not escape.

• Proverbs 19:9

  A witness of lies will not go unpunished, and whoever utters lies will perish.

• Proverbs 19:22

  What is desirable in a man is his loyal love, and better is a poor man than a man who lies.

• Proverbs 21:28

  A witness of lies will perish, but a man who listens will speak forever.

• Proverbs 23:3

  Do not crave his delicacies, for they are bread of lies.

• Proverbs 30:8

  falsehood and a word of lies keep far from me; poverty and riches do not give me; feed me with the bread of my portion,

• Isaiah 28:15

  Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have made an agreement; the sweeping whip, when it passes through, will not come to us, for we have made a lie our refuge, and in falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”

• Isaiah 28:17

  And I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will carry away the refuge of lies, and the hiding place, waters will sweep it away.

• Ezekiel 13:6

  They have seen emptiness and lying divination, those who say, “Declares YHWH,” and YHWH has not sent them, and they expect him to confirm the word.

• Ezekiel 13:7

  Have you not seen an empty vision, and spoken a lying divination, when you say, “Declares YHWH,” though I have not spoken?

• Ezekiel 13:8

  Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: Because you have spoken emptiness and seen lies, therefore, look, I am against you, declares Adonai YHWH.

• Ezekiel 13:9

  And my hand will be against the prophets who see emptiness and who divine lies; in the inner council of my people they will not be, and in the register of the house of Israel they will not be written, and into the soil of Israel they will not enter; and you will know that I am Adonai YHWH.

• Ezekiel 13:19

  And you have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to put to death souls that should not die, and to keep alive souls that should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.

• Ezekiel 21:29

  while they see for you emptiness, while they divine for you a lie, to put you on the necks of the wicked mortally wounded, whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

• Ezekiel 22:28

  And her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing emptiness and divining for them a lie, saying, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH,’ when YHWH has not spoken.

• Daniel 11:27

  And as for the two kings, their hearts will be set on doing evil, and at one table they will speak lies; but it will not succeed, for the end is yet for the appointed time.

• Hosea 7:13

  Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have transgressed against me! And I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.

• Hosea 12:1

  Ephraim feeds on wind, and pursues the east wind; all day he multiplies lies and destruction; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.

• Amos 2:4

  Thus says YHWH: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke it; because they rejected the law of YHWH, and did not keep his statutes; and their lies led them astray, after which their fathers walked.

• Zephaniah 3:13

  The remnant of Israel will not do injustice nor speak lies, nor will there be found in their mouth a tongue of deceit; for they will graze and lie down, and there will be no one to make them afraid.”