κυβεία

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Transliteration: kybeía

Pronunciation: koo-bi'-ah

Definition: sleight

- Original: κυβεία

- Transliteration: Kubeia

- Phonetic: koo-bi'-ah

- Definition:

1. dice playing

2. metaph. the deception of men, because dice players sometimes cheated and defrauded their fellow players

- Origin: "from kubos (a "cube", i.e. die for playing)"

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine

- Strong's: From κύβος kubos (a cube that is die for playing); gambling that is (figuratively) artifice or fraud: - sleight.