kubeia
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2940. kubeia

kubeia: dice playing
Original Word: κυβεία, ας, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: kubeia
Phonetic Spelling: (koo-bi'-ah)
Short Definition: trickery, sleight
Definition: (lit: playing with dice, gaming, hence) trickery, sleight.

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."]

Word Origin
from kubos (a cube, die)
Definition
dice playing
NASB Word Usage
trickery (1).

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sleight, trickery

From kubos (a "cube", i.e. Die for playing); gambling, i.e. (figuratively) artifice or fraud -- sleight.

κτίσας — 1 Occ.
κτίσῃ — 1 Occ.
κτισθέντα — 1 Occ.
κτισθέντες — 1 Occ.
κτίσει — 4 Occ.
κτίσεως — 8 Occ.
κτίσις — 7 Occ.
κτίσμα — 2 Occ.
κτισμάτων — 2 Occ.
κτίστῃ — 1 Occ.
κυβερνήσεις — 1 Occ.
κυβερνήτῃ — 1 Occ.
κυβερνήτης — 1 Occ.
κυκλόθεν — 3 Occ.
ἐκύκλευσαν — 1 Occ.
ἐκύκλωσαν — 1 Occ.
κυκλωσάντων — 1 Occ.
κυκλωθέντα — 1 Occ.
κυκλουμένην — 1 Occ.
κύκλῳ — 8 Occ.


Strong's Greek 2940
1 Occurrence


κυβείᾳ — 1 Occ.

Ephesians 4:14 N-DFS
BIB: 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

1 Occurrence


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