Judges 16:10
And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.
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Lies
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1 Timothy 4:2
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
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כָּזָב
kâzâb · kaw-zawb'
20 times translated as this KJV form30 total Strong's occurrences
falsehood; literally (untruth) or figuratively (idol)
Strong's KJV usage: deceitful, false, leasing, liar, lie, lying.
Strong's first: Judges 16:10Strong's last: Zephaniah 3:13
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sheqer · sheh'-ker
18 times translated as this KJV form111 total Strong's occurrences
an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)
Strong's KJV usage: without a cause, deceit(-ful), false(-hood, -ly), feignedly, liar, lie, lying, vain (thing), wrongfully.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 13:4Strong's last: Zechariah 13:3
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kachash · kakh'-ash
4 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
literally a failure of flesh, i.e. emaciation; figuratively, hypocrisy
Strong's KJV usage: leanness, lies, lying.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Hosea 7:3Strong's last: Nahum 3:1
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bad · bad
3 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a brag or lie; also a liar
Strong's KJV usage: liar, lie.
Strong's first: Job 11:3Strong's last: Jeremiah 48:30
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dâbâr · daw-baw'
2 times translated as this KJV form1,425 total Strong's occurrences
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Strong's KJV usage: act, advice, affair, answer, × any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, chronicles, commandment, × commune(-ication), concern(-ing), confer, counsel, dearth, decree, deed, × disease, due, duty, effect, eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-) ness, glory, harm, hurt, iniquity, judgment, language, lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, × ought, × parts, pertaining, please, portion, power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, × (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, sign, so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, song, speech, × spoken, talk, task, that, × there done, thing (concerning), thought, thus, tidings, what(-soever), wherewith, which, word, work.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 29:12Strong's last: Proverbs 30:8
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pseudológos · psyoo-dol-og'-os
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
mendacious, i.e. promulgating erroneous Christian doctrine
Strong's KJV usage: :--speaking lies.
Strong's first: 1 Timothy 4:2Strong's last: 1 Timothy 4:2
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kâzab · kaw-zab'
1 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
to lie (i.e. deceive), literally or figuratively
Strong's KJV usage: fail, (be found a, make a) liar, lie, lying, be in vain.
Strong's first: Proverbs 14:5Strong's last: Proverbs 14:5
Open full H3576 profile →שָׁוְא
shâvᵉʼ · shawv
1 times translated as this KJV form53 total Strong's occurrences
evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain)
Strong's KJV usage: false(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity.
Strong's first: Isaiah 59:4Strong's last: Isaiah 59:4
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tᵉʼun · teh-oon'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
naughtiness, i.e. toil
Strong's KJV usage: lie.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 24:12Strong's last: Ezekiel 24:12
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H8267
O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
H8267
And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.
H8267
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
H8267
I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
H8267
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
H8267
Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.
H907
I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it.
H3577
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD.
H3577
And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
H3577
And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?
H8267
Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
H3577
And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
H8383
She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
H3577
And both these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.
H3585
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
H3577
Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
H3585
Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.
H3585
Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.
H3577
Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
H3577
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
H8267
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
H3585
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
H8267
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
H3577
The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
H8267
And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
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lie
LIE, water impregnated with alkaline salt, is written lye, to distinguish it from lie a falsehood.
LIE, noun
1. A criminal falsehood; a falsehood uttered for the purpose of deception; an intentional violation of truth. Fiction, or a false statement or representation, not intended to deceive, mislead or injure, as in fables, parables and the like, is not a lie
It is willful deceit that makes a lie A man may act a lie as by pointing his finger in a wrong direction, when a traveler inquires of him his road.
2. A fiction; in a ludicrous sense.
3. False doctrine. 1 John 2:1.
4. An idolatrous picture of God, or a false god. Romans 1:25.
5. That which deceives and disappoints confidence.
Micah 1:14.
To give the lie to charge with falsehood. A man's actions may give the lie to his words.
LIE, verb intransitive
1. To utter falsehood with an intention to deceive, or with an immoral design.
Thou hast not lied to men, but to God. Acts 5:3.
2. To exhibit a false representation; to say or do that which deceives another, when he has a right to know the truth, or when morality requires a just representation.
LIE, verb intransitive preterit tense lay; participle passive lain, [lien, obsolete ] [The Gr. word usually signifies to speak, which is to utter or throw out sounds. Hence to lie down is to throw one's self down, and probably lie and lay are of one family, as are jacio and jacceo, in Latin.]
1. To be in a horizontal position, or nearly so, and to rest on any thing lengthwise, and not on the end. Thus a person lies on a bed, and a fallen tree on the ground. A cask stands on its end, but lies on its side.
2. To rest in an inclining posture; to lean; as, to lie on or against a column.
3. To rest; to press on.
4. To be reposited in the grave.
All the kings of the earth, even all of them, lie in glory.
Isaiah 14:18.
5. To rest on a bed or couch; to be prostrate; as, to lie sick.
My little daughter lieth at the point of death. Mark 5:1.
6. To be situated. New Haven lies in the forty second degree of north latitude. Ireland lies west of England.
Envy lies between beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances.
7. To be; to rest; to abide; to remain; often followed by some word denoting a particular condition; as, to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hid; to lie pining or grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of a creditor, or at the mercy of the waves.
8. To consist.
He that thinks that diversion may not lie in hard labor, forgets the early rising of the huntsman.
9. To be sustainable in law; to be capable of being maintained. An action lies against the tenant for waste.
An appeal lies in this case.
To lie at, to tease or importune. [Little used.]
To lie at the heart, to be fixed as an object of affection or anxious desire.
1. To lie by, to be reposited, or remaining with. He has the manuscript lying by him.
2. To rest; to intermit labor. We lay by during the heat of the day.
To lie in the way, to be an obstacle or impediment. Remove the objections that lie in the way of an amicable adjustment.
To lie hard or heavy, to press; to oppress; to burden.
To lie on hand, to be or remain in possession; to remain unsold or undisposed of.
Great quantities of wine lie on hand, or have lain long on hand.
To lie on the hands, to remain unoccupied or unemployed; to be tedious. Men are sometimes at a loss to know how to employ the time that lies on their hands.
To lie on the head, to be imputed.
What he gets more of her than sharp words, let it lie on my head.
To lie in wait, to wait for in concealment; to lie in ambush; to watch for an opportunity to attack or seize.
To lie in one, to be in the power of; to belong to.
As much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Rom 41.
To lie down, to lay the body on the ground or other level place; also, to go to rest.
To lie in, to be in childbed; to bring forth young.
To lie under, to be subject to; to suffer; to be oppressed by.
To lie on or upon, to be a matter of obligation or duty. It lies on the plaintiff to maintain his action.
1. To lie with, to lodge or sleep with; also, to have carnal knowledge of.
2. To belong to. It lies with you to make amends.
To lie over, to remain unpaid, after the time when payment is due; as a note in bank.
To lie to, to be stationary, as a ship.
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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