KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

fatness; ashes

1. Son of Seir
Genesis 36:21; Genesis 36:30; 1 Chronicles 1:38

2. Grandson of Seir
Genesis 36:25; 1 Chronicles 1:41

(antelope)

1. The fifth son of Seir. (Genesis 36:21,26,30; 1 Chronicles 1:38)

DISHONEST, adjective Dizonest. [dis and honest.]

1. Void of honesty; destitute of probity, integrity or good faith; faithless; fraudulent; knavish; having or exercising a disposition to deceive, cheat and defraud; applied to persons; as a dishonest man.

2. Proceeding from fraud or marked by it; fraudulent; knavish; as a dishonest transaction.

3. Disgraced; dishonored; from the sense in Latin.

DISHONEST with lopped arms the youth appears.

4. Disgraceful; ignominious; from the Latin sense.

Inglorious triumphs, and dishonest scars.

5. Unchaste; lewd.

DISHONESTLY, adverb Dizonestly.

1. In a dishonest manner; without good faith, probity or integrity; with fraudulent views; knavishly.

2. Lewdly; unchastely.

General references
Leviticus 6:2-7; Leviticus 19:13; Leviticus 19:35-36; Deuteronomy 25:13-16; Job 24:2-11; Psalms 37:21; Psalms 50:18; Psalms 62:10; Proverbs 3:27-28; Proverbs 11:1; Proverbs 20:10; Proverbs 20:14; Proverbs 20:17; Proverbs 20:23; Isaiah 32:7; Jeremiah 7:8-10; Jeremiah 9:4-6; Jeremiah 9:8; Jeremiah 22:13; Ezekiel 22:29; Hosea 4:1-2; Hosea 12:7; Amos 3:10; Amos 8:5; Micah 6:10-11; Nahum 3:1; Zephaniah 1:9; Zech 5:3-4; Luke 16:1-8; 1 Thessalonians 4:6; James 5:4

Instances of:

Abimelech's servants usurp a well of water
Genesis 21:25; Genesis 26:15-22

Jacob obtains his brother's birthright by unjust advantage
Genesis 25:29-33

Jacob steals his father's blessing
Genesis 27:6-29

Jacob steals Laban's flocks by skillful manipulation
Genesis 30:31-43

Rebekah's guile in Jacob's behalf
Genesis 27:6-17

Laban's treatment of Jacob
Genesis 29:21-30; Genesis 31:36-42

Rachel steals the household gods
Genesis 31:19

Simeon and Levi deceive the Shechemites
Genesis 34:15-31

Achan hides the wedge of gold and the Babylonish garment
Joshua 7:11-26

Micah steals eleven hundred pieces of silver
Judges 17:2

Micah's priest steals his images
Judges 18:14-21

Joab's guile in securing Absalom's return
2 Samuel 14:2-20

Ahab usurps Naboth's vineyard
1 Kings 21:2-16

Judas' hypocritical sympathy for the poor
John 12:6
Diplomacy; Hypocrisy; Injustice; Treason

DISHONESTY, noun Dizonesty.

1. Want of probity, or integrity in principle; faithlessness; a disposition to cheat or defraud, or to deceive and betray; applied to persons.

2. Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; treachery; any deviation from probity or integrity; applied to acts.

3. Unchastity; incontinence; lewdness.

4. Deceit; wickedness; shame. 2 Corinthians 4:2.

DISHONOR, noun Dizonor. [dis and honor.] Reproach; disgrace; ignominy; shame; whatever constitutes a stain or blemish in the reputation.

It was not meet for us to see the kings dishonor Ezra 4:1.

It may express less than ignominy and infamy.

DISHONOR, verb transitive

1. To disgrace; to bring reproach or shame on; to stain the character of; to lessen reputation. The duelist dishonors himself to maintain his honor.

The impunity of the crimes of great men dishonors the administration of the laws.

2. To treat with indignity.

3. To violate the chastity of; to debauch.

4. To refuse or decline to accept or pay; as, to dishonor a bill of exchange.

DISHONORABLE, adjective

1. Shameful; reproachful; base; vile; bringing shame on; staining the character, and lessening reputation. Every act of meanness, and every vice is dishonorable

2. Destitute of honor; as a dishonorable man.

3. In a state of neglect or disesteem.

He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more in poverty?

DISHONORABLY, adverb Reproachfully; in a dishonorable manner.

DISHONORARY, adjective Dizonorary. Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening reputation.

DISHONORED, participle passive Disgraced; brought into disrepute.

DISHONORER, noun One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another with indignity.

DISHONORING, participle present tense Disgracing; bringing into disrepute; treating with indignity.