Lexical Definition

‎רְמִיָּה‎ rᵉmîyâh (rem-ee-yaw') deceit ^H:N-F
from ‎רָמָה‎

deceit(-ful, -fully), false, guile, idle, slack, slothful.

• remissness, treachery

1) laxness, slackness, slackening, deceit, treachery

See Greek: ἄδικος · ἄνομος · δόλιος · δόλος

Extended Information

• laxness, slackness, slackening

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎רְמִיָּה‎ noun feminine deceit, treachery; — always absolute ‎׳‎‎ר‎; — deceit, treachery: especially of speech, predicate of ‎לָשׁוֺן‎ Mic 6:12 (|| ‎שֶׁקֶר‎), apposition of ‎לָשׁוֺן‎ (or read ‎לְשֹׁוֺן‎ ?) Ps 120:2 (|| ‎שְׂפַת שֶׁקֶר‎), vPs 120:3 of man, ‎׳‎‎עשֵֹׁה ר‎ Ps 52:4* that workest treachery, Ps 101:7 (|| ‎דֹּבֵר שְׁקָדִים‎); also Job 13:7; Job 27:4 (both || ‎עַוְלָה‎); deception Ps 32:2 (|| ‎עָוֺן‎); in phrase ‎׳‎‎קֶשֶׁת ר‎ treacherous bow (simile) Hos 7:16; Ps 78:57 (failing him who trusts to it).

II. ‎רְמִיָּה‎ noun feminine laxness, slackness; — always absolute ‎׳‎‎ר‎; — ‎׳‎‎כַּף ר‎ Prov 10:4 slack (negligent, idle) hand (opposed to ‎יַד חָרוּצִים‎); ‎׳‎‎ר‎ alone = slackness (abstract for concrete = one who is slack) Prov 12:24 (|| id.), vProv 12:27 (see ‎חרך‎); ‎׳‎‎נֶפֶשׁ ר‎ Prov 19:15 (|| ‎עַצְלָה‎); as adverb ‎עשֶֹׁה‎ ‎רְמִיָּה‎ ‎׳‎‎מְלֶאכֶת י‎ Jer 48:10.

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