noun · feminine
kubeias
Greekκυβεία (kubeia)
Strong’sG2940
trickery, sleight
stem kubei-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
κυβεία, v.s. κυβία.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2940 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkoo-bi'-ah
gambling, i.e. (figuratively) artifice or fraud
Fromfrom κύβος (a "cube", i.e. die for playing);
King Jamessleight.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | kubeias | kubeiais |
| object accusative | kubeian | kubeiain |
| direct address vocative | kubeiar | kubeiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | kubeiau | kubeiaiu |
| to, for dative | kubeia1×κυβείᾳ | kubeiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
kubeia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
kubeia“trickery”to, fordative singular1×
Ephesians 4:14“trickery”hina mēketi aneiō nēpiois, kludōnizerōtois kai periferirōtois panto anemo tau didaskaliau en ta kubeia toiu anthrōpoiu en panourgia pros tan methodeian tau planau,Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.