Usually translated as
deceit, deceitful, deceitfully, false, guile, craft, feigned, treachery, subtilly
Occurrences
Mirmâh occurs 39 times in 38 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), 2 Kings (1), Job (2), Psalms (14), Proverbs (8), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (3), Daniel (2), Hosea (2), Amos (1), Micah (1), Zephaniah (1)
- Genesis 27:35 — And he said, Thy brother came with (בְּמִרְמָ֑ה) subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.
- Genesis 34:13 — And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully (בְּמִרְמָ֖ה), and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
- 2 Kings 9:23 — And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery (מִרְמָ֥ה), O Ahaziah.
- Job 15:35 — They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit (מִרְמָֽה).
- Job 31:5 — If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit (מִרְמָ֣ה);
- Psalms 5:6 — Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful (וּמִרְמָ֗ה) man.
- Psalms 10:7 — His mouth is full of cursing and deceit (וּמִרְמ֣וֹת) and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
- Psalms 17:1 — Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned (מִרְמָֽה) lips.
- Psalms 24:4 — He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully (לְמִרְמָֽה).
- Psalms 34:13 — Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile (מִרְמָֽה).
- Psalms 35:20 — For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful (מִ֝רְמוֹת) matters against them that are quiet in the land.
- Psalms 36:3 — The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit (וּמִרְמָ֑ה): he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
- Psalms 38:12 — They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits (וּ֝מִרְמ֗וֹת) all the day long.
- Psalms 43:1 — Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful (מִרְמָ֖ה) and unjust man.
- Psalms 50:19 — Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit (מִרְמָֽה).
- Psalms 52:4 — Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful (מִרְמָֽה) tongue.
- Psalms 55:11 — Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile (וּמִרְמָֽה) depart not from her streets.
- Psalms 55:23 — But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful (וּ֭מִרְמָה) men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
- Psalms 109:2 — For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful (מִ֭רְמָה) are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
- Proverbs 11:1 — A false (מִ֭רְמָה) balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
- Proverbs 12:5 — The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit (מִרְמָֽה).
- Proverbs 12:17 — He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit (מִרְמָֽה).
- Proverbs 12:20 — Deceit (מִ֭רְמָה) is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
- Proverbs 14:8 — The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit (מִרְמָֽה).
- Proverbs 14:25 — A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful (מִרְמָֽה) witness speaketh lies.
- Proverbs 20:23 — Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false (מִרְמָ֣ה) balance is not good.
- Proverbs 26:24 — He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit (מִרְמָֽה) within him;
- Isaiah 53:9 — And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit (מִרְמָ֖ה) in his mouth.
- Jeremiah 5:27 — As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit (מִרְמָ֑ה): therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
- Jeremiah 9:6 — Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit (מִרְמָ֑ה); through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
- Jeremiah 9:6 — Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit (בְּמִרְמָ֛ה) they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
- Jeremiah 9:8 — Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit (מִרְמָ֣ה): one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
- Daniel 8:25 — And through his policy also he shall cause craft (מִרְמָה֙) to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
- Daniel 11:23 — And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully (מִרְמָ֑ה): for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
- Hosea 11:12 — Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit (וּבְמִרְמָ֖ה): but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.
- Hosea 12:7 — He is a merchant, the balances of deceit (מִרְמָ֖ה) are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
- Amos 8:5 — Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit (מִרְמָֽה)?
- Micah 6:11 — Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful (מִרְמָֽה) weights?
- Zephaniah 1:9 — In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit (וּמִרְמָֽה).