# H3576 כָּזַב

כָּזַב (kâzab), Strong’s H3576: to lie (i.e. deceive), literally or figuratively KJV: fail, (be found a, make a) liar, lie, lying, be in vain.. Occurs 18 times.

Source: https://besorah.bible/word/H3576 — Besorah, the whole Bible in Hebrew, Greek and English. Texts and licences: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html

*kâzab* — to lie (i.e. deceive), literally or figuratively

KJV: fail, (be found a, make a) liar, lie, lying, be in vain.

Occurs 18 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [כָּזַב] vb. lie, be a liar
- Qal Pt.
- Niph. his hope has been made deceptive
- Pi.
- 1 lie, tell a lie
- 2 disappoint, fail
- Hiph. who will make me a liar? i.e. prove me to be so

## Where it occurs
- [Numbers 23:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/23?v=19) — God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and he won’t do it? Or has…
- [Judges 16:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/16?v=10) — Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound.”
- [Judges 16:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/16?v=13) — Delilah said to Samson, “Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.” He said…
- [2 Kings 4:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/4?v=16) — He said, “At this season next year, you will embrace a son.” She said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your…
- [Isaiah 57:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/57?v=11) — “Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I…
- [Isaiah 58:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/58?v=11) — and the LORD will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like…
- [Ezekiel 13:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/13?v=19) — You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not…
- [Micah 2:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/micah/2?v=11) — If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies, saying, “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink,” he would…
- [Habakkuk 2:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/habakkuk/2?v=3) — For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes…
- [Psalms 78:36](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/78?v=36) — But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.