KJV dictionary & concordance
False or misleading, and therefore untrustworthy.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Psalms 5:6
Complete exact-word concordance
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
Thou shalt destroy them that speake leasing: the LORD will abhorre the bloodie and deceitfull man.
1611 marginal noteHeb. the man of bloods and deceit.
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
For they speake not peace: but they deuise deceitfull matters against them that are quiet in the land.
JUDGE me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
¶ Iudge mee, O God, and plead my cause against an vngodly nation; O deliuer me from the deceitfull and vniust man.
1611 marginal noteOr, vnmercifull.
1611 marginal noteHebr. from a man of deceit, and iniquitie.
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
Thou louest all deuouring words, O thou deceitfull tongue.
1611 marginal noteOr, and the deceitfull tongue.
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
But thou, O God, shalt bring them downe into the pit of destruction: Bloody and deceitfull men shall not liue out halfe their dayes, but I will trust in thee.
1611 marginal noteHeb. men of bloods and deceit.
1611 marginal noteHebr. shal not halfe their dayes.
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
But turned backe, and dealt vnfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitfull bowe.
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth of the deceitfull are opened against mee: they haue spoken against me with a lying tongue.
1611 marginal noteHebr. mouth of deceit.
1611 marginal noteHebr. haue opened themselues.
Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
Deliuer my soule, O LORD, from lying lips: and from a deceitfull tongue.
The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
The wicked worketh a deceitfull worke: but to him that soweth righteousnesse, shall be a sure reward.
A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.
A true witnesse deliuereth soules: but a deceitfull witnesse speaketh lyes.
1611 marginal noteVer. 5.
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Historical English dictionary sources
1. Tending to mislead, deceive or ensnare; as deceitful words; deceitful practices. Favor is deceitful Proverbs 31:30. 2. Full of deceit; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; as a deceitful man.
