kubeia <2940>
kubeia kubeia
Pronunciation | : | koo-bi'-ah |
Origin | : | from kubos (a "cube", i.e. die for playing) |
Reference | : | - |
PrtSpch | : | n f (noun feminime) |
In Greek | : | kubeia 1 |
In NET | : | trickery 1 |
In AV | : | sleight 1 |
Count | : | 1 |
Definition | : |
1) dice playing 2) metaph. the deception of men, because dice players sometimes cheated and defrauded their fellow players from kubos (a "cube", i.e. die for playing); gambling, i.e. (figuratively) artifice or fraud: KJV -- sleight. |
Related Hebrew | : | - |