תֹּךְ
tôk · H8496 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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fraud
Exact meaning unsure; probably: action by which humans deceive other humans for personal gain
ExamplesPsalm 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression; Under his tongue is harm and injustice.
Psalm 55:11 Destruction is in her midst; Oppression and deceit do not depart from her streets.
Psalm 72:14 He will rescue their life from oppression and violence, And their blood will be precious in his sight;
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מוּשׁto give way 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אִישׁman, person, each 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 8 words
- שֶׁקֶר sheqer · H8267 · treachery, wrongfully, without cause
- Both words denote deception and falsehood, and both include the sense of deceit.
- מַשָּׁאוֹן mashshâʼôwn · H4860 · deceit
- Both words denote overlapping concepts of deceit and fraud in Hebrew.
- שָׁוְא shâvᵉʼ · H7723 · falsehood, deceit, deceitfulness
- Both words denote falsehood and deception: שָׁוְא means "false, vanity, lie" and תֹּךְ means "deceit, fraud".
- מִרְמָה mirmâh · H4820 · falsehood, deceit, treachery
- Both words convey deceit and fraud, and could substitute for each other in contexts of dishonesty.
- רְמִיָּה rᵉmîyâh · H7423 · lazy, slothful, idle
- Both lexemes denote deceit or fraud as their core sense, functioning as same-language near-synonyms — two distinct Hebrew words that can substitute for each other to express deceit.
- כָּזָב kâzâb · H3577 · falsehood, lie, lies
- Both lexemes denote falsehood or deceit, with glosses that genuinely overlap in that sense — both refer to deceitful, false, or lying concepts — making them near-synonyms.
- כַּחַשׁ kachash · H3585 · leanness, gauntness, lies
- Both lexemes denote falsehood/deception concepts (lies/lying vs. deceit/fraud) and can substitute in contexts requiring terms for dishonesty — the overlap is specific to deception vocabulary, making this a near-synonym pairing.
- נֵכֶל nêkel · H5231 · to deceive
- Both lexemes denote deceptive or fraudulent behavior and function as near-synonyms — both are rare, but both clearly occupy the same semantic space of dishonesty and trickery.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- False002001003007
- This noun denotes deceit, as in Psalm 10:7's description of the wicked man's mouth being full of cursing, deceit, and oppression.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8496. tok תֹּךְ II. תּוֺךְ noun masculine injury, oppression; — absolute תֹּךְ + מִרְמָה…
תֹּךְ II. תּוֺךְ noun masculine injury, oppression; — absolute תֹּךְ + מִרְמָה Psa 10:7; Psa 55:12 (so Gi; Baer תּוֺךְ); תּוֺךְ, + חָמָס (gloss) Psa 72:14; plural כִּים תְּכָּ אִישׁ Pro 29:13 oppressor (ᵑ9 creditor; compare חמסים אישׁ 2Sa 22:49; Psa 140:2; Psa 140:5). — 1.תּוֺךְ see תָּוֶךְ.
תְּכָּכִים see תֹּךְ. לִית תַּכְּ תִּכְלָה, see כלה. above,
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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