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Greek

1747. enedra -- a lying in wait, an ambush
... Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: enedra Phonetic Spelling:
(en-ed'-rah) Short Definition: an ambush, plot, treachery, fraud Definition: an ...
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2829. klope -- theft
... Cognate: 2829 -- theft, done (through stealth, fraud, etc.), ie thievery done
secretively (not out in the open or with violence). See 2812 (). ...
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539. apate -- deceit
... Cognate: 539 -- a false impression, made to deceive or cheat -- ie deceit motivated
by guile and treachery (trickery, fraud). See 538 (). ...
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1387. dolioo -- to deceive
... Verb Transliteration: dolioo Phonetic Spelling: (dol-ee-o'-o) Short Definition:
I act deceitfully, deceive Definition: I act deceitfully, deceive, use fraud. ...
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3132. manteuomai -- to divine
... Phonetic Spelling: (mant-yoo'-om-ahee) Short Definition: I practice soothsaying
Definition: I divine, practice soothsaying, suggesting the fraud involved in ...
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4468. rhadiourgia -- ease in doing, laziness, recklessness, hence ...
... Word Origin from the same as rhadiourgema Definition ease in doing, laziness,
recklessness, hence wickedness NASB Word Usage fraud (1). mischief. ...
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2940. kubeia -- dice playing
... sleight, trickery. From kubos (a "cube", ie Die for playing); gambling, ie
(figuratively) artifice or fraud -- sleight. (kubeia) -- 1 Occurrence. 2939, ...
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4812. sulagogeo -- to carry off as spoil
... Transliteration: sulagogeo Phonetic Spelling: (soo-lag-ogue-eh'-o) Short Definition:
I plunder Definition: I plunder, lead captive; met: I make victim by fraud ...
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650. apostereo -- to defraud, deprive of
... defraud, deprive. From apo and stereo (to deprive); to despoil -- defraud, destitute,
kept back by fraud. see GREEK apo. (apesteremenos) -- 1 Occurrence. ...
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1114. goes -- a wailer, a sorcerer, a swindler
... 1114 ("a charlatan"), used only in 2 Tim 3:13, refers to a (properly,
a ) -- a fraud who "sounds off" like a whining enchanter. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

8496. tok -- injury, oppression
... deceit, fraud. Or towk (Psa. 72:14) {toke}; from the same base as tavek (in the
sense of cutting to pieces); oppression -- deceit, fraud. see HEBREW tavek. ...
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6233. osheq -- oppression, extortion
... From ashaq; injury, fraud, (subjectively) distress, (concretely) unjust gain --
cruelly, extortion, oppression, thing (deceitfully gotten). see HEBREW ashaq. ...
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8419. tahpukah -- perversity, perverse thing
... procession. From haphak; a perversity or fraud -- (very) froward(-ness, thing),
perverse thing. see HEBREW haphak. 8418, 8419. tahpukah. 8420 . ...
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1892. hebel -- vapor, breath
... root Definition vapor, breath NASB Word Usage breath (5), delusion (2), emptily
(1), emptiness (2), fleeting (2), fraud (1), futile (1), futility (13), idols (7 ...
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4820. mirmah -- deceit, treachery
... From ramah in the sense of deceiving; fraud -- craft, deceit(-ful, -fully), false,
feigned, guile, subtilly, treachery. see HEBREW ramah. 4819, 4820. ...
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8649. tormah -- perhaps treachery
... deceitful, privily And tarmuwth {tar-mooth'}; or tarmiyth {tar-meeth'}; from ramah;
fraud -- deceit(-ful), privily. see HEBREW ramah. 8648, 8649. ...
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8595. tatuim -- mockery
... Word Origin from taa Definition mockery NASB Word Usage mockery (2). error. From
ta'a'; a fraud -- error. see HEBREW ta'a'. 8594, 8595. tatuim. 8596 . ...
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Library

Whether Fraud Pertains to Craftiness?
... OF VICES OPPOSED TO PRUDENCE BY WAY OF RESEMBLANCE (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether
fraud pertains to craftiness? Objection 1: It would ...
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A Pious Fraud.
... Book X. Chapter LXIII."A Pious Fraud. Then said I: "God arranges our affairs
to our liking; for we have with us Anubion an astrologer ...
/.../unknown/recognitions of clement /chapter lxiii a pious fraud.htm

The Fraud of the Foregoing Practices; their Connection with Heresy ...
... Book IV. Chapter XLII."The Fraud of the Foregoing Practices; Their Connection
with Heresy. These are the deeds of the magicians ...
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Whether Treachery, Fraud, Falsehood, Perjury, Restlessness ...
... OF THE VICES OPPOSED TO LIBERALITY, AND IN THE FIRST PLACE, OF COVETOUSNESS (EIGHT
ARTICLES) Whether treachery, fraud, falsehood, perjury, restlessness ...
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The Fraud, Pride, and Tyrannical Kingdom of Antichrist, as ...
... Against Heresies: Book V Chapter XXV."The fraud, pride, and tyrannical
kingdom of Antichrist, as described by Daniel and Paul. ...
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Christ and his Apostles, Without any Fraud, Deception, or ...
... Against Heresies: Book III Chapter V."Christ and His apostles, without any fraud,
deception, or hypocrisy, preached that one God, the Father, was the founder ...
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The Personal History of Callistus; his Occupation as a Banker ...
... Chapter VII."The Personal History of Callistus; His Occupation as a Banker; Fraud
on Carpophorus; Callistus Absconds; Attempted Suicide; Condemned to the ...
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Professing Rhetoric at Rome, He Discovers the Fraud of his ...
... Book V. Chapter XII."Professing Rhetoric at Rome, He Discovers the Fraud
of His Scholars. 22. Then began I assiduously to practise ...
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Whether the Prohibitive Precepts Relating to the vices Opposed to ...
... Objection 2: Further, there is room for fraud in other things than in
buying and selling. Therefore the Law unfittingly forbade ...
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Having Adduced Examples of Certain Frauds Found in a Few Passages ...
... For why did he show himself so eager for luxuries and delicacies as to allow a fraud
of this character? 71. ... [673] For this he perished as guilty of fraud. ...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.

2. (n.) An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.

3. (n.) A trap or snare.

Topical Bible Verses

Acts 2:38
Then Peter said to them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
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Revelation 22:15
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and whoever loves and makes a lie.
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John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stayed not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
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Revelation 21:8
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
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Thesaurus

Fraud (15 Occurrences)
...Fraud (15 Occurrences). ... 1 Thessalonians 2:3 For our preaching was not grounded on
a delusion, nor prompted by mingled motives, nor was there fraud in it. (WEY). ...
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Guile (21 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. GUILE. gil (mirmah; dolos): "Guile" is twice the
translation of mirmah, "fraud," "deceit" (Psalm 34:13, "Keep. ...
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Cheat (5 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the
means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture. ...
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Sham (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes
and disappoint; a make-believe; delusion; imposture, humbug. ...
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Balance (12 Occurrences)
... 3. The System of Weighing Liable to Fraud: Though the "balances" in ancient times
were rudely constructed, the weighing could be done quite accurately, as may ...
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Vanity (100 Occurrences)
... Selah. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS). Psalms 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit
and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity. (KJV WBS). ...
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Knavery (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Dishonesty; deceitfulness; petty tricks; fraud;
trickery; as, a knavish action. 2. (n.) Roguish or mischievous tricks. ...
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Labourers (11 Occurrences)
... James 5:4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which
is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have ...
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Laborers (19 Occurrences)
... James 5:4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have
kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered ...
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Gouge (4 Occurrences)
... 6. (n.) Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish
person. Multi-Version Concordance Gouge (4 Occurrences). ...
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Bible Concordance

Fraud (15 Occurrences)

Matthew 27:64 Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people,'He is risen from the dead;' and the last deception will be worse than the first."
(See RSV)

Luke 16:11 If therefore you have not proved yourselves faithful in dealing with the wealth that is tainted with fraud, who will entrust to you the true good?
(WEY)

Acts 13:10 and said, "Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
(See NAS)

1 Corinthians 6:8 No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

1 Thessalonians 2:3 For our preaching was not grounded on a delusion, nor prompted by mingled motives, nor was there fraud in it.
(WEY)

James 5:4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT RSV)

Exodus 22:9 As to all manner of fraud, as to ox, as to ass, as to sheep, as to clothing, as to everything lost, of which a man saith, It is this the cause of both parties shall come before the judges: he whom the judges shall condemn shall restore double to his neighbour.
(DBY)

Psalms 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
(KJV WBS YLT)

Psalms 55:11 Mischiefs 'are' in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street.
(YLT RSV)

Psalms 72:14 From fraud and from violence he redeemeth their soul, And precious is their blood in his eyes.
(YLT)

Proverbs 13:11 Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.
(See NAS)

Proverbs 20:17 Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
(Root in WEB NIV)

Jeremiah 10:14 Every man is become brutish and is without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 51:17 Every man is become brutish and is without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
(See NIV)

Zephaniah 1:9 In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master's house with violence and deceit.
(See RSV)

Subtopics

Fraud

Related Terms

Guile (21 Occurrences)

Cheat (5 Occurrences)

Sham (1 Occurrence)

Balance (12 Occurrences)

Vanity (100 Occurrences)

Knavery (2 Occurrences)

Labourers (11 Occurrences)

Laborers (19 Occurrences)