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Lexicon :: Strong's H3577 - kāzāḇ

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כָּזָב
Transliteration
kāzāḇ
Pronunciation
kaw-zawb'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 970a

Strong’s Definitions

כָּזָב kâzâb, kaw-zawb'; from H3576; falsehood; literally (untruth) or figuratively (idol):—deceitful, false, leasing, liar, lie, lying.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 31x

The KJV translates Strong's H3577 in the following manner: lie (23x), lying (2x), leasing (2x), deceitful (1x), false (1x), liar (1x), lies (with H1697) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 31x
The KJV translates Strong's H3577 in the following manner: lie (23x), lying (2x), leasing (2x), deceitful (1x), false (1x), liar (1x), lies (with H1697) (1x).
  1. a lie, untruth, falsehood, deceptive thing

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כָּזָב kâzâb, kaw-zawb'; from H3576; falsehood; literally (untruth) or figuratively (idol):—deceitful, false, leasing, liar, lie, lying.
STRONGS H3577: Abbreviations
כָּזָב noun masculineAmos 2:4 lie, falsehood, deceptive thing; — absolute כ׳ Hosea 12:2 + 19 times; plural absolute כְּזָבִים Judges 16:10 + 9 times; suffix כִּזְבֵיהֶם Amos 2:4; — lie, falsehood, with דִּבֶּר Judges 16:10, 13; Hosea 7:13; Zephaniah 3:13; Daniel 11:27; Psalm 5:7; Psalm 58:4, so Ezekiel 13:8 Co (by transposing כ׳ with שָׁוְא, compare Ezekiel 13:6; Ezekiel 13:7; Ezekiel 13:9); with יָפִיחַ (in Proverbs) Proverbs 6:19; Proverbs 14:5, 25; Proverbs 19:5, 9; of false prophecies (divinations) with אָמַר, מִקְסַם כ׳ Ezekiel 13:7; with קָסַם Ezekiel 13:9; Ezekiel 21:34; Ezekiel 22:28 + Ezekiel 13:6 Greek Version of the LXX Co (קָסוֺם כ׳, for MT קֶסֶם כ׳); with שָׁמַע Ezekiel 13:19, בִּקֵּשׁ Psalm 4:3; with רָצָה delight in Psalm 62:5; so in the phrase דְּבַרכֿ׳ Proverbs 30:8, אִישׁ כ׳ Proverbs 19:22 = liar, עֵד כְּזָבִים Proverbs 21:28 = false witness; of idols. as a lie (res ementita) Amos 2:4, so probably שָׂטֵי כ׳ those turning aside to a lie Psalm 40:5 (compare אָוֶן, אֱלִיל, הֶבֶל, שֶׁקֶר); then of empty human pretensions וָשֹׁד יַרְבֶּה כ׳ Hosea 12:2; Isaiah 28:15 (|| שֶׁקֶר), Isaiah 28:17 (מַחְסֵה כ׳), Psalm 62:10 (|| הֶבֶל; compare כֹּזֵב Psalm 116:11); לֶחֶם כְּזָבִים Proverbs 23:3 = deceptive (disappointing) bread.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Judges

16:10; 16:10; 16:13

Psalms

4:3; 5:7; 40:5; 58:4; 62:5; 62:10; 116:11

Proverbs

6:19; 14:5; 14:25; 19:5; 19:9; 19:22; 21:28; 23:3; 30:8

Isaiah

28:15; 28:17

Ezekiel

13:6; 13:6; 13:7; 13:7; 13:8; 13:9; 13:9; 13:19; 22:28

Daniel

11:27

Hosea

7:13; 12:2; 12:2

Amos

2:4; 2:4; 2:4

Zephaniah

3:13

H3577

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3577 matches the Hebrew כָּזָב (kāzāḇ),
which occurs 29 times in 29 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 4:2 -

O sons of men, how long will my glory become a reproach?

How long will you love what is worthless and seek falsehood H3577? [fn]Selah.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:6 -

You destroy those who speak falsehood H3577;

Yahweh abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:4 -

How blessed is the man who has made Yahweh his trust,

And has not [fn]turned to the proud, nor to those who stray into falsehood H3577.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:3 -

The wicked are estranged from the womb;

These who speak falsehood H3577 wander in error from [fn]birth.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:4 -

Surely they have counseled to thrust him down from his high position;

They find pleasure in falsehood H3577;

They bless with [fn]their mouth,

But inwardly they curse. [fn]Selah.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:9 -

Surely [fn]men of low degree are merely vanity and [fn]men of rank are a lie H3577;

In the balances they go up;

They are together lighter than a breath of vanity.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:19 -

A false witness who breathes out lies H3577,

And one who [fn]spreads strife among brothers.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:5 -

A faithful witness will not lie,

But a false witness breathes out lies H3577.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:25 -

A truthful witness delivers souls,

But he who breathes out lies H3577 is deceitful.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:5 -

A [fn]false witness will not go unpunished,

And he who breathes out lies H3577 will not escape.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:9 -

A [fn]false witness will not go unpunished,

And he who breathes out lies H3577 will perish.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:22 -

What is desirable in a man is his lovingkindness,

And better is a poor man than a man of falsehood H3577.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:28 -

A false H3577 witness will perish,

But the man who listens will speak forever.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:3 -

Do not desire his delicacies,

For it is bread of falsehood H3577.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:8 -

Keep worthlessness and every false word H3577 far from me,

Give me neither poverty nor riches;

Feed me with the food that is my portion,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:15 -

Because you have said, “We have cut a covenant with death,

And with Sheol we have made a [fn]pact.

The overflowing [fn]scourge will not reach us when it passes by,

For we have made falsehood H3577 our refuge and we have hidden ourselves with lying.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:17 -

“I will make justice the measuring line

And righteousness the level;

Then hail will sweep away the refuge of falsehood H3577,

And the waters will overflow the secret place.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:6 - “They behold worthlessness and lying H3577 divination who are saying, ‘Yahweh declares,’ when Yahweh has not sent them; yet they wait for the establishing of their word.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:7 - “Did you not see a worthless vision and speak a lying H3577 divination when you said, ‘Yahweh declares,’ but it is not I who have spoken?”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:8 -

Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh, “Because you have spoken worthlessness and beheld a lie H3577, therefore behold, I am against you,” declares Lord Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:9 - “So My hand will be against the prophets who see worthless visions and utter lying H3577 divinations. They will not be in the council of My people, nor will they be written down in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel, [fn]that you may know that I am Lord Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:19 - “For handfuls of barley and fragments of bread, you have profaned Me to My people to put to death souls who should not die and to keep other souls alive who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies H3577.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:29 - while they behold for you worthless visions, while they divine lies H3577 for you—to place you on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:28 - “And her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, beholding worthless visions and divining lies H3577 for them, saying, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh,’ when Yahweh has not spoken.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:27 - “And as for both kings, their hearts will be intent on evil, and they will speak falsehood H3577 at the same table; but it will not succeed, for the end is still to come at the appointed time.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:13 -

Woe to them, for they have fled from Me!

Destruction is theirs, for they have transgressed against Me!

And I would redeem them, but they speak lies H3577 against Me.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:1 -

[fn]Ephraim feeds on wind

And pursues the east wind continually;

He abounds in falsehood H3577 and destruction.

Moreover, [fn]he cuts a covenant with Assyria,

And oil is carried to Egypt.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:4 -

Thus says Yahweh,

“For three transgressions of Judah and for four

I will not turn back its punishment

Because they rejected the law of Yahweh

And have not kept His statutes;

Their [fn]falsehood H3577 also has led them astray,

That which their fathers walked after.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:13 -

“The remnant of Israel will do no injustice

And not speak falsehood H3577,

Nor will a deceitful tongue

Be found in their mouths;

For they will feed and lie down

With no one to make them tremble.”

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