mirma · deceit

What it means

mirma (מִרְמָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “deceit”.

Fraud, treachery.

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. Lies, a trap or betrayal by which another is deceived.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• deceit ×35
• Treachery ×1
• deceitful ×1
• deceitfully ×1
• deceits ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×14
• Proverbs×8
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×4
• Daniel×2
• Hosea×2
• Amos×1
• Micah×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Genesis 27:35

  He said, “Your brother came with deceit and took your blessing.”

• Genesis 34:13

  The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit and spoke, because he had made Dinah their sister unclean.

• 2 Kings 9:23

  Joram turned his hands and fled and said to Ahaziah, “Treachery, Ahaziah!”

• Job 15:35

  They conceive suffering and give birth to wickedness, and their belly prepares deceit.”

• Job 31:5

  If I have walked with emptiness, and my foot has hurried to deceit,

• Psalms 5:6

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

• Psalms 10:7

  His mouth is full of cursing and of deceit and oppression; under his tongue are suffering and wickedness.

• Psalms 17:1

  A prayer of David. Hear, YHWH, what is righteous; heed my cry; give ear to my prayer, which comes not from lips of deceit.

• Psalms 24:4

  He who has innocent hands and is clean of heart, who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn with deceit.

• Psalms 34:13

  Guard your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.

• Psalms 35:20

  For they do not speak peace, and against the quiet ones of the land they devise words of deceit.

• Psalms 36:3

  The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; he has ceased to understand, to do good.

• Psalms 38:12

  Those who seek my soul lay snares, and those who strive for my harm speak calamities, and deceits they meditate all the day.

• Psalms 43:1

  Judge me, Elohim, and contend for my case against a nation not faithful; from the man of deceit and injustice bring me to safety.

• Psalms 50:19

  Your mouth you let loose for evil, and your tongue weaves deceit.

• Psalms 52:4

  You love all words that devour, you tongue of deceit!

• Psalms 55:11

  Calamities are within it; and oppression and deceit do not depart from its square.

• Psalms 55:23

  But you, Elohim, will bring them down to the well of the pit; men of blood and deceit will not reach half their days; but I will trust in you.

• Psalms 109:2

  For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit they have opened against me; they have spoken with me with a tongue of falsehood.

• Proverbs 11:1

  Scales of deceit are an abomination to YHWH, but a full weight is his pleasure.

• Proverbs 12:5

  The thoughts of the righteous are justice; the guidance of the wicked is deceit.

• Proverbs 12:17

  Whoever utters faithfulness declares righteousness, but a witness of lies, deceit.

• Proverbs 12:20

  Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but for those who counsel peace, joy.

• Proverbs 14:8

  The wisdom of the shrewd is to understand his way, but the folly of the senseless is deceit.

• Proverbs 14:25

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

• Proverbs 20:23

  An abomination to YHWH are weight and weight, and scales of deceit are not good.

• Proverbs 26:24

  With his lips the one who hates disguises himself, and within himself he lays up deceit.

• Isaiah 53:9

  And they made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was there deceit in his mouth.

• Jeremiah 5:27

  Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and grown rich.

• Jeremiah 9:6

  Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 9:8

  A deadly arrow is their tongue; it speaks deceit; with his mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor, but within him he sets his ambush.

• Daniel 8:25

  And by his cunning he will make deceit prosper in his hand, and in his heart he will make himself great, and in their ease he will destroy many; and against the Prince of princes he will stand up; but without hand he will be broken.

• Daniel 11:23

  And from the time an alliance is made with him he will act deceitfully, and he will go up and become strong with a small nation.

• Hosea 11:12

  Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah still roams with El, and with the Holy One he is faithful.

• Hosea 12:7

  A merchant! In his hand are scales of deceit; he loves to oppress.

• Amos 8:5

  saying, “When will the new moon be over, so that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, so that we may open the stores of wheat, to make small the ephah and make great the shekel, and to falsify scales of deceit,

• Micah 6:11

  Shall I be pure with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

• Zephaniah 1:9

  And I will call to account all who leap over the threshold on that day, who fill the house of their masters with violence and deceit.

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