Lexical Summary kybeia: dice playing Original Word: κυβείαTransliteration: kybeia Phonetic Spelling: (koo-bi'-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: dice playing Meaning: dice playing Strong's Concordance sleight, trickeryFrom kubos (a "cube", i.e. Die for playing); gambling, i.e. (figuratively) artifice or fraud -- sleight. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2940: κυβείᾳκυβείᾳ (κυβία T WH; see Iota), κυβειας, ἡ (from κυβεύω, and this from κύβος a cube, a die), dice-playing (Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, others); tropically, ἡ κυβείᾳ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, the deception (A. V. sleight) of men, Ephesians 4:14, because dice-players sometimes cheated and defrauded their fellow-players. |
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