Strong's #3576: kazab (pronounced kaw-zab')

a primitive root; to lie (i.e. deceive), literally or figuratively:--fail, (be found a, make a) liar, lie, lying, be in vain.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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kâzab

1) to lie, tell a lie, be a liar, be found a liar, be in vain, fail

1a) (Qal) liar (participle)

1b) (Niphal) to be proven to be lying

1c) (Piel)

1c1) to lie, tell a lie, tell a lie with, deceive

1c2) to disappoint, fail

1d) (Hiphil) to make a liar, prove to be a liar

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 17 times:

 

Numbers 23:19: "God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he"
Judges 16:13: "Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith"
2 Kings 4:16: "my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid."
Job 6:28: "look you if I lie."
Job 24:25: "it be not so now, will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing"
Job 34:6: " Should I lie against my right? is incurable without transgression."
Job 41:9: "Behold, the hope of him is in vain: even at the sight"
Psalms 78:36: "Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied"
Psalms 89:35: "have I sworn by my holiness lie unto David."
Psalms 116:11: "in my haste, men are liars."
Proverbs 14:5: "A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies."
Proverbs 30:6: "lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar."
Isaiah 57:11: "hast thou been afraid or feared, thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid"
Isaiah 58:11: "of water, whose waters fail not."
Ezekiel 13:19: "and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?"
Micah 2:11: "walking and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be"
Habakkuk 2:3: "but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because"