STRONGS NUMBER H7423


Word Summary
rmiyah: deceit, treachery
Original Word: רְמִיָּה
Transliteration: rmiyah
Phonetic Spelling: (rem-ee-yaw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: deceit, treachery
Meaning: remissness, treachery
Strong's Concordance
remissness, treachery

From ramah; remissness, treachery -- deceit(- ful, -fully), false, guile, idle, slack, slothful.

see HEBREW ramah

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7423. rmiyah

I. רְמִיָּהnoun feminine deceit, treachery; — always absolute ׳ר‎; — deceit, treachery: especially of speech, predicate of לָשׁוֺןMicah 6:12 ("" שֶׁקֶר‎), apposition of לָשׁוֺן‎ (or read לְשֹׁוֺן‎ ?) Psalm 120:2 ("" שֶׁקֶר שְׂפַת‎), 120:3; of man, ר ׳עשֵֹׁה52:4 that workest treachery, 101:7 ("" שְׁקָדִים דֹּבֵר‎); also Job 13:7; 27:4 (both "" עַוְלָה‎); deception Psalm 32:2 ("" עָוֺן‎); in phrase ר ׳קֶשֶׁתtreacherous bow (simile) Hosea 7:16; Psalm 78:57 (failing him who trusts to it).

II. רְמִיָּהnoun feminine laxness, slackness; — always absolute ׳ר‎; — ר ׳כַּףProverbs 10:4 slack (negligent, idle) hand (opposed to חָרוּצִים יַד‎); ׳ר‎ alone = slackness (abstract for concrete = one who is slack) 12:24 ("" id.), 12:27 (see חרך‎); ר ׳נֶפֶשׁ19:15 ("" עַצְלָה‎); as adverb י ׳מְלֶאכֶת רְמִיָּה עשֶֹׁהJeremiah 48:10.