Strong's Greek #2940 - κυβεία, ας, ἡ kubeia (dice playing)
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance sleight, trickery From kubos (a "cube", i.e. Die for playing); gambling, i.e. (figuratively) artifice or fraud -- sleight. Thayer's Greek LexiconStrong's 2940: κυβείᾳκυβείᾳ (κυβία T WH; see Iota), κυβειας, ἡ (from κυβεύω, and this from κύβος a cube, a die), dice-playing (Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, others); tropically, ἡ κυβείᾳ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, the deception (A. V. sleight) of men, Ephesians 4:14, because dice-players sometimes cheated and defrauded their fellow-players.Englishman's Concordance (References) |