כְּדַב
kᵉdab · H3538 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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falsehood, lie
State in which something that has been said is not truthful
ExamplesDaniel 2:9 that if you do not make the dream known to me, there is only one decree for you. For you have agreed together to speak lying and corrupt words before me until the situation is changed; therefore tell me the dream, so that I may know that you can declare to me its interpretation.”
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִלָּהcommandment 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- שֶׁקֶר sheqer · H8267 · treachery, wrongfully, without cause
- Common Hebrew noun denoting a lie, falsehood, or deception; semantically overlaps with כְּדַב as both refer to untruth/lying, though שֶׁקֶר is far more frequent and broadly attested.
- מִרְמָה mirmâh · H4820 · falsehood, deceit, treachery
- Hebrew noun denoting deceit or treachery, semantically related to lying as an act of deliberate deception, though it emphasizes the treacherous intent more than the false statement itself.
Contrasting words 1 word
- אֶמֶת ʼemeth · H571 · faithfulness, reliability, trustworthiness
- Hebrew noun denoting truth or faithfulness, the standard lexical opposite of lying/falsehood in biblical Hebrew vocabulary.
In the other Testament 2 words
- ψεῦδος pseûdos · G5579 · lie, falsehood
- Greek noun denoting a lie or falsehood, the standard translation equivalent for Hebrew words denoting lying/falsehood in LXX contexts.
- ψευδής pseudḗs · G5571 · liar
- Greek adjective meaning false or lying, a natural translation equivalent for the Hebrew adjective/noun כְּדַב (lying).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- False002001003007
- Daniel 2:9 has the king reply to the Chaldeans, “you have agreed together to speak lying and corrupt words before me until the situation is changed; therefore tell me the dream.”
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3538. kdab [כְּדַב] adjective False. (ᵑ7 Syriac; see Biblical Hebrew כזב); — feminine…
[כְּדַב] adjective False. (ᵑ7 Syriac; see Biblical Hebrew כזב); — feminine singular absolute כִדְבָה מִלָּה Dan 2:9 ( > noun appositive K175 M66*#168;).
דִי כְּ see דִּי.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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