Strong's Concordance kubeia: dice playing Original Word: κυβεία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: kubeia Phonetic Spelling: (koo-bi'-ah) Short Definition: trickery, sleight Definition: (lit: playing with dice, gaming, hence) trickery, sleight. HELPS Word-studies 2940 kybeía (from kybos, "a cube" or "die") – properly, dice-playing (WS, 859); hence, "gaming, trickery, sleight" (Souter). 2940 (kybeia ), associated with a "sleight of the hand," implies the use of trickery and cheating (used only in Eph 4:14). [2940 /kybeía is the root of the English term, "cube."] Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2940: κυβείᾳκυβείᾳ (κυβία T WH; see Iota), κυβειας, ἡ (from κυβεύω, and this from κύβος a cube, a die), dice-playing (Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, others); tropically, ἡ κυβείᾳ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, the deception (A. V. sleight) of men, Ephesians 4:14, because dice-players sometimes cheated and defrauded their fellow-players. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance sleight, trickeryFrom kubos (a "cube", i.e. Die for playing); gambling, i.e. (figuratively) artifice or fraud -- sleight. Forms and Transliterations κυβεία κυβείᾳ κυβερνώσι κυβια κυβίᾳ kubeia kybeia kybeíāiLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 29401 Occurrence κυβείᾳ — 1 Occ. Ephesians 4:14 N-DFS GRK: ἐν τῇ κυβείᾳ τῶν ἀνθρώπων NAS: of doctrine, by the trickery of men, KJV: by the sleight of men, INT: in the sleight the of men |
    |