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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #391 - אַכְזָב

Transliteration

ʼakzâb

Phonetics

ak-zawb'

Origin

from (H3576)

Parts of Speech

adjective

TWOT

970b

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

deceitful, treacherous, deception, lie, deceptive, disappointing

Greek Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 2756 ‑ κενός (ken‑os'); 5571 ‑ ψευδής (psyoo‑dace'); 5579 ‑ ψεῦδος (psyoo'‑dos);

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (2)

Jeremiah 1

Micah 1

BSB (2)

Jeremiah 1

Micah 1

CSB (1)

Jeremiah 1

Micah 1

ESV (2)

Jeremiah 1

Micah 1

KJV (2)

Jeremiah 1

Micah 1

LEB (2)

Jeremiah 1

Micah 1

LSB (2)

Jeremiah 1

Micah 1

N95 (2)

Jeremiah 1

Micah 1

NAS (2)

Jeremiah 1

Micah 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (2)

Jeremiah 1

Micah 1

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

2253) b z k (כזב KZB) AC: Lie CO: Lie AB: ?: Vain words spoken to deceive, cause failure or disappoint. What does not function in the capacity that it was meant to.

V) b z k (כזב KZB) - Lie: KJV (16): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil, Piel, Participle) lie, liar, vain, fail - Strongs: H3576 (כָּזַב)

N^m) b z k (כזב KZB) - Lie: KJV (31): lie, liar, leasing, deceitful, false - Strongs: H3577 (כָּזָב)

e^f1) e b z i k (כיזבה KYZBH) - Lying: [Aramaic only] [df: hbdk] KJV (1): lying - Strongs: H3538 (כְּדַב)

n^m ) b z k a (אכזב AKZB) - Lie: KJV (2): lie, liar - Strongs: H391 (אַכְזָב)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

אַכְזָב adjective deceptive, disappointing (elative; opposed to אֵיתָן q. v. below יתן) — only absolute singular: — Micah 1:14 (with play on proper name אַכְזִיב); of a deceptive, disappointing stream (compare Isaiah 58:11) Jeremiah 15:18 ("" מַיִם לֹא נֶאְמָ֑נוּ; on meaning compare Job 6:15 ff.)

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

אַכְזָב (for כְּזָב with Aleph prosthetic), adj. lying, false, deceptive. Specially for נַתַל אַכְזָב “a deceiving river,” i.e. soon drying up and disappointing the traveller, Jeremiah 15:18; Micah 1:14. Opposed to אֵיתָן a continual river; comp. fundus mendax, Hor. Carm. iii. 1, 30.

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List of Word Forms

אַכְזָ֔ב אכזב לְאַכְזָ֔ב לאכזב ’aḵ·zāḇ ’aḵzāḇ achZav lə’aḵzāḇ lə·’aḵ·zāḇ leachZav