42 occurrences in 12 translations

'Treacherous' in the Bible

Isaac said, “Your brother came deceitfully and has [fraudulently] taken away your blessing [for himself].”

Verse ConceptsInjustice, Examples OfPeople BlessingThose Who Deceived

"When a person commits a truly treacherous act and sins inadvertently concerning the sacred things of the LORD, then he is to bring a trespass offering to the LORD from the flock as compensation for his guilt. It is to be a ram without defect, estimated as to its value in silver shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

Verse ConceptsGuilt OfferingRamsSilverPerfect SacrificesUnintentionalUnfaithful

"This is what the entire community of the LORD has to say: "What is this treacherous act by which you have acted deceitfully against the God of Israel by turning away from following the LORD today, and by building yourselves an altar today, so you can rebel against the LORD?

Verse ConceptsRenunciationBuilding AltarsIf You Turn From GodUnfaithful

My brothers are as treacherous as a wadi,as seasonal streams that overflow

Also let none waiting on Thee be ashamed, Let the treacherous dealers without cause be ashamed.

Verse ConceptsHope, In GodNot AshamedTreacheryWaiting On The Lord

You love any words that destroy,you treacherous tongue!

Verse ConceptsTongueDeceitful TonguesLoving Evil

And Thou, Jehovah, God of Hosts, God of Israel, Awake to inspect all the nations. Favour not any treacherous dealers of iniquity. Selah.

Verse ConceptsTreacheryGod Waking UpPsalm InterjectionsPunishment of the The Wickedtraitors

But turned back and acted treacherously like their fathers;They turned aside like a treacherous bow.

Verse ConceptsFaultsBow And Arrows, Illustrations OfUnreliabilityTwistingUseless PeopleFalling Away From God

What will be given to you, and what will be done to you, you treacherous tongue?

Verse ConceptsFalsehoodDeceitful Tongues

The integrity of the upright guides them,but the perversity of the treacherous destroys them.

Verse ConceptsUnfaithfulness, To GodBusiness EthicsVirtueCrookednessIntegrityPerversion

The righteousness of the upright rescues them,but the treacherous are trapped by their own desires.

Verse ConceptsdesiresTrapDistinctives Of RighteousnessSalvation By Other ThingsGreed

The thoughts and purposes of the [consistently] righteous are just (honest, reliable),But the counsels and schemes of the wicked are deceitful.

Verse ConceptsadvisersEvil SpeakingDeception In Fallen Human NaturePlansRighteous, TheEvil PlansAdvice, Bad Human AdviceThoughts Of The RighteousgaysGay Marriagecancer

From the words of his mouth,a man will enjoy good things,but treacherous people have an appetite for violence.

Verse ConceptsLipsUnfaithfulness, To GodViolencePursuing ViolenceBeing PositiveThe Power Of Words

A truthful witness saves lives,But he who utters lies is treacherous.

Verse ConceptsEvil SpeakingLyingLying And Deceittraitors

The Lord’s eyes keep watch over knowledge,but He overthrows the words of the treacherous.

Verse ConceptsGod Seeing All The EarthMental Abusepreservationtraitors

She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.

Verse ConceptsAmbushUnfaithful

A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.

Verse ConceptsProphetic Visionstraitors

From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

Verse ConceptsHanding Over PeopleGood Things From Far Awaytraitors

Woe, spoiler! and thou not spoiled, And treacherous! and they dealt not treacherously with thee, When thou dost finish, O spoiler, thou art spoiled, When thou dost finish dealing treacherously, They deal treacherously with thee.

Verse ConceptsBetrayalTreacheryWoeThe DestroyerWoe To The WickedUnfaithfulfinishingtraitors

You have never heard; you have never known;For a long time your ears have not been open.For I knew that you were very treacherous,and were known as a rebel from birth.

Verse ConceptsRebellion, Of IsraelTreacheryFrom Birth

“About whom were you worried and fearfulThat you lied and did not remember Me,Nor give Me a thought?Was I not silent even for a long timeAnd [as a result] you do not fear Me?

Verse ConceptsForgetting GodSilenceInfidelity To GodGod Being SilentNo Fear Of GodFearFear And WorryBeing Scared

And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

Verse ConceptsNot Returning To GodRelated Nations

And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

Verse ConceptsAdultery and Divorcedivorce, amongst believersCertificate of divorceSpiritual HarlotryBills Of DivorceRelated NationsNo Fear Of GodBackslidingBackslidersInfidelitywhores

And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.

Verse ConceptsNot Whole HeartedPretenceRepentance, Nature OfHalf HeartednessNot Returning To GodRelated Nations

And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

Verse ConceptsComparisonsPeople In RighteousnessBackslidingBacksliders

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Verse ConceptsCrowdsInnsApostasy in OTequipping, physicalUnfaithfulness, To GodSolitudeEvil AssociationsLiving In The WildernessPeople Abandoning Peopletraitors

You will be righteous, Lord,even if I bring a case against You.Yet, I wish to contend with You:Why does the way of the wicked prosper?Why do all the treacherous live at ease?

Verse ConceptsFaithlessness, As DisobedienceGod, Righteousness OfQuestionsApparent InjusticePartialityDoubting God's JusticeProsperity Of The WickedThe Wicked ProsperprosperingQuestioning Life

"Son of Man, when a nation sins against me by a treacherous act, I'll reach out to oppose it, destroying its source of food, by sending famine against it, and by destroying both people and beast within it.

Verse ConceptsUnfaithfulness, To GodStretching OutGod's HandDestruction Of All CreaturesGod's Hands Stretched OutBoth Men And Animals KilledUnfaithful

But when the righteous person abandons his righteous deeds and commits evil, detestable practices, as wicked people do, he won't live, will he? None of the righteous acts that he had done will be remembered. He'll die in his treacherous unfaithfulness and sins that he had committed."

Verse ConceptsRighteous, TheSanctification, Means And ResultsDoing The Right Thing

"Therefore, Son of Man, you are to speak to the children of Israel and tell them, "This is what the Lord GOD says: "Your ancestors also blasphemed me in their treacherous behavior against me.

Verse ConceptsCurses, HumanBlasphemyUnfaithfulacting

“Righteousness belongs to You, O Lord, but to us confusion and open shame, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those who are nearby and those who are far away, in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the [treacherous] acts of unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.

Verse Conceptsdispersion, theSelf Righteousness, And The GospelUnfaithfulness, To GodPeople ExiledShame Has ComeUnfaithful

And also, because the wine is treacherous, A man is haughty, and remaineth not at home, Who hath enlarged as sheol his soul, And is as death that is not satisfied, And doth gather unto itself all the nations, And doth assemble unto itself all the peoples,

Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofdissatisfactionAmbition, Warnings RegardingGrave, TheSatisfactionWorldly AmbitionCovetousness, Nature ofAlcohol ConsumptionEffect Of WineDealing With The NationsThe Fact Of Death

Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesSanctuaryTreacheryCorrupt PriestsPollutionsWicked ProphetsLack Of HolinessUnfaithful

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Perfidious (1 instance)
Treacherous (47 instances)
Unreliable (10 instances)

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בּגדות 
Bog@dowth 
Usage: 1

בּגוד 
Bagowd 
Usage: 2

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