Psalms 5:9
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
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Psalms 78:36
Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
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חָלַק
châlaq · khaw-lak'
1 times translated as this KJV form65 total Strong's occurrences
to be smooth (figuratively); by implication (as smooth stones were used for lots) to apportion or separate
Strong's KJV usage: deal, distribute, divide, flatter, give, (have, im-) part(-ner), take away a portion, receive, separate self, (be) smooth(-er).
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Strong's first: Psalms 5:9Strong's last: Psalms 5:9
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pâthâh · paw-thaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form28 total Strong's occurrences
to open, i.e. be (causatively, make) roomy; usually figuratively (in a mental or moral sense) to be (causatively, make) simple or (in a sinister way) delude
Strong's KJV usage: allure, deceive, enlarge, entice, flatter, persuade, silly (one).
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Strong's first: Psalms 78:36Strong's last: Psalms 78:36
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For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
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Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
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flatter
FLAT'TER, noun The person or thing by which any thing is flattened.
FLAT'TER, verb transitive [Flatter may be from the root of flat, that is, to make smooth, to appease, to soothe. Latin plaudo. Perhaps flat and plaudo are from one root, the radical sense of which must be to extend, strain, stretch.]
1. To soothe by praise; to gratify self-love by praise or obsequiousness; to please a person by applause or favorable notice, by respectful attention, or by any thing that exalts him in his own estimation, or confirms his good opinion of himself. We flatter a woman when we praise her children.
A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net for his feet. Proverbs 29:5.
2. To please; to gratify; as, to flatter one's vanity or pride.
3. To praise falsely; to encourage by favorable notice; as, to flatter vices or crimes.
4. To encourage by favorable representations or indications; as, to flatter hopes. We are flattered with the prospect of peace.
5. To raise false hopes by representations not well founded; as, to flatter one with a prospect of success; to flatter a patient with the expectation of recovery when his case is desperate.
6. To please; to soothe.
A concert of voices - makes a harmony that flatters the ears.
7. To wheedle; to coax; to attempt to win by blandishments, praise or enticements. How many young and credulous persons are flattered out of their innocence and their property, by seducing arts!
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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