רְמִיָּה
rᵉmîyâh · rem-ee-yaw'
remissness, treachery
Lexicon
Derivation: from H7411 (רָמָה);
remissness, treachery
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: deceit(-ful, -fully), false, guile, idle, slack, slothful.
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the head, the highest › water, chaos, the mighty deep › the hand that works › to reveal, behold
The head, the highest of water, chaos, the mighty deep of the hand that works that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רְמִיָּה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
15 occurrences · 15 OT · 0 NT · 8 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- deceitfully3 · 20%
- deceit2 · 13%
- there is no guile1 · 7%
- like a deceitful1 · 7%
- and from a deceitful1 · 7%
- unto thee, thou false1 · 7%
- with a slack1 · 7%
- but the slothful1 · 7%
- the slothful1 · 7%
- and an idle1 · 7%
- they are like a deceitful1 · 7%
- is deceitful1 · 7%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.