Bible Dictionary
DECEIT
Deceit is the intentional misleading or beguiling of another person. Scripture treats it as a form of wickedness associated with falsehood, hatred, theft, covetousness, adultery, and murder.
Definition
Deceit is the intentional misleading or beguiling of another person. It is represented in Scripture as a form of wickedness joined with falsehood and other sins.
Biblical Usage
Deceit is associated with cursing, hatred, theft, covetousness, adultery, murder, oppression, error, and guile.
Historical Background
Older and later English versions sometimes render related words differently, using terms such as oppression, falsehood, guile, or error according to context.
Historical Bible Dictionaries
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>de-set' (mirmah; (dolos)): The intentional misleading or beguiling of another; in Scripture represented as a companion of many other forms of wickedness, as cursing (Ps 10:7), hatred (Pr 26:24), theft, covetousness, adultery, murder (Mr 7:22; Ro 1:29). The Revised Version (British and American) introduces the word in Pr 14:25; 2Th 2:10; but in such passages as Ps 55:11; Pr 20:17; 26:26; 1Th 2:3, renders a variety of words, more accurately than the King James Version, by "oppression," "falsehood," "guile," "error."</p>