Lexicon 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."] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom kubos (a cube, die) Definitiondice playing NASB Translationtrickery (1).
Thayer's 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 sleight, trickery From kubos (a "cube", i.e. Die for playing); gambling, i.e. (figuratively) artifice or fraud -- sleight. |
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