remiya · deceit, slackness

What it means

remiya (רְמִיָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “deceit, slackness”.

Deceit, falsehood; also slackness, laziness.

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. False words or acts that make someone believe what is not so.
2. Laziness, doing things halfheartedly.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• deceit ×7
• deceitful ×3
• slack ×2
• slackness ×2
• negligently ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Job×2
• Psalms×6
• Proverbs×4
• Jeremiah×1
• Hosea×1
• Micah×1

• Job 13:7

  Will you speak injustice for El, and for him speak deceit?

• Job 27:4

  my lips will not speak injustice, nor will my tongue utter deceit.

• Psalms 32:2

  Happy is the human being against whom YHWH does not count iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

• Psalms 52:2

  Calamities your tongue devises, like a razor sharpened, working deceit.

• Psalms 78:57

  And they turned back and dealt treacherously like their fathers; they were twisted like a bow of deceit.

• Psalms 101:7

  He will not dwell within my house who practices deceit; he who speaks lies will not stand firm before my eyes.

• Psalms 120:2

  YHWH, deliver my soul from the lip of lies, from the deceitful tongue.

• Psalms 120:3

  What will he give you, and what will he add to you, deceitful tongue?

• Proverbs 10:4

  A slack palm makes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

• Proverbs 12:24

  The hand of the diligent will rule, but slackness will be for forced labor.

• Proverbs 12:27

  Slackness does not roast its game, but the precious wealth of a man is the diligent one.

• Proverbs 19:15

  Laziness casts into a deep sleep, and a slack soul will go hungry.

• Jeremiah 48:10

  Cursed is the one who does the work of YHWH negligently, and cursed is the one who holds back his sword from blood.

• Hosea 7:16

  They turn, but not upward; they have become like a deceitful bow; their princes will fall by the sword because of the fury of their tongue; this will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

• Micah 6:12

  For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak falsehood, and their tongue is deceit in their mouth.