Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3577
כָּזָב
kazabkaw-zawb'
lie
31 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kâzâb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3577is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 23spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3577
falsehood; literally (untruth) or figuratively (idol)
The King James renders it: deceitful, false, leasing, + liar, lie, lying.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
kazab is rendered "lie". It stands 31 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Nine of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 16:10Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me! Now please tell me how you can be tied up.”
- The Greek text spells it twenty-three different ways.
The first use
Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me! Now please tell me how you can be tied up.”
Judges 16:10כְּזָבִ֑ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- falsehood17
- lies10
- of falsehood3
- lies their1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| כָּזַב | kazab | to lie | Uses16 |
The words it stands beside
All 31, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
23 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- כָּזָ֑ב3
- כָ֫זָ֥ב2
- כָזָ֔ב2
- כָזָֽב׃2
- כְּ֝זָבִ֗ים2
- כְּזָבִ֣ים2
- כְּזָבִֽים׃2
- כָזָ֣ב1
- כָזָ֛ב1
- כָּזָ֪ב1
- כָּזָ֡ב1
- כָּזָ֔ב1
and 11 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular20HNcmsa
- noun · masculine plural10HNcmpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcmpc/Sp3mp
Judges
two uses
Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me! Now please tell me how you can be tied up.”
- כְּזָבִ֑יםkezavimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: lies
Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me all along! Tell me how you can be tied up.” He told her, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the web of a loom and tighten it with a pin, I will become as weak as any other man.”
- כְּזָבִ֔יםkezavimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: lies
Psalms
six uses
How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies? Selah
- כָזָ֣בkhazavnoun · masculine singulartagged: falsehood
You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.
- כָ֫זָ֥בkhazavnoun · masculine singulartagged: of falsehood
Blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust, who has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.
- כָזָֽב׃khazavnoun · masculine singulartagged: falsehood
The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
- כָזָֽב׃khazavnoun · masculine singulartagged: of falsehood
They fully intend to cast him down from his lofty perch; they delight in lies; with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah
- כָ֫זָ֥בkhazavnoun · masculine singulartagged: falsehood
Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
- כָּזָ֪בkazavnoun · masculine singulartagged: falsehood
Proverbs
nine uses
a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers.
- כְּ֭זָבִיםkezavimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: lies
An honest witness does not deceive, but a dishonest witness pours forth lies.
- כְּ֝זָבִ֗יםkezavimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: lies
A truthful witness saves lives, but one who utters lies is deceitful.
- כְּזָבִ֣יםkezavimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: lies
A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies will not escape.
- כְּ֝זָבִ֗יםkezavimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: lies
A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who pours out lies will perish.
- כְּזָבִ֣יםkezavimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: lies
The desire of a man is loving devotion; better to be poor than a liar.
- כָּזָֽב׃kazavnoun · masculine singulartagged: falsehood
A lying witness will perish, but the man who listens to truth will speak forever.
- כְּזָבִ֥יםkezavimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: lies
Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
- כְּזָבִֽים׃kezavimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: lies
Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.
- כָּזָ֡בkazavnoun · masculine singulartagged: falsehood
Isaiah
two uses
For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
- כָזָ֛בkhazavnoun · masculine singulartagged: falsehood
I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place.
- כָזָ֔בkhazavnoun · masculine singulartagged: falsehood
Ezekiel
seven uses
They see false visions and speak lying divinations. They claim, ‘Thus declares the LORD,’ when the LORD did not send them; yet they wait for the fulfillment of their message.
- כָּזָ֔בkazavnoun · masculine singulartagged: falsehood
Haven’t you seen a false vision and spoken a lying divination when you proclaim, ‘Thus declares the LORD,’ even though I have not spoken?
- כָּזָ֖בkazavnoun · masculine singulartagged: falsehood
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you have uttered vain words and seen false visions, I am against you, declares the Lord GOD.
- כָּזָ֑בkazavnoun · masculine singulartagged: falsehood
My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and speak lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of My people or be recorded in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.
- כָּזָב֒kazavnoun · masculine singulartagged: falsehood
You have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to My people who would listen, you have killed those who should not have died and spared those who should not have lived.
- כָזָֽב׃ סkhazavnoun · masculine singulartagged: of falsehood
while they offer false visions for you and lying divinations about you—to be placed on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.
- כָּזָ֑בkazavnoun · masculine singulartagged: falsehood
Her prophets whitewash these deeds by false visions and lying divinations, saying, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ when the LORD has not spoken.
- כָּזָ֑בkazavnoun · masculine singulartagged: falsehood
Daniel
one use
And the two kings, with their hearts bent on evil, will speak lies at the same table, but to no avail, for still the end will come at the appointed time.
- כָּזָ֣בkazavnoun · masculine singulartagged: falsehood
Hosea
two uses
Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me.
- כְּזָבִֽים׃kezavimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: lies
Ephraim chases the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.
- כָּזָ֥בkazavnoun · masculine singulartagged: falsehood
Amos
one use
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.
- כִּזְבֵיהֶ֔םkizveihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: lies their
Zephaniah
one use
The remnant of Israel will no longer do wrong or speak lies, nor will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouths. But they will feed and lie down, with no one to make them tremble.”
- כָזָ֔בkhazavnoun · masculine singulartagged: falsehood
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.