Word study · Greek
kybeía
dice-playing, trickery
Say it: koo-BI-ah (approximate)
κυβεία
What it means
Playing with dice, and so gambling and cheating (from kybos, "cube"). In 4:14, people are carried about "by the trickery of men." It appears only here.
Range of meaning
- Dice-playingGames of chance.
- TrickeryCheating or deceit.
In Ephesians
- Chapter 4
"By the trickery of men" (4:14).
Every verse (1)
Verses where G2940 is tagged in the Hebrew text: STEPBible Data (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. About our sources