Feign

fan (badha, nakhar; plastos): Occurs

(1) in the sense of "to devise," "invent" as the translation of badha', "to form," "to fashion" (Neh 6:8, "Thou feignest them out of thine own heart"; compare 1 Kgs 12:33, English Versions of the Bible "devised of his own heart"); of plastos, "formed," "molded" (2 Pet 2:3, "with reigned words make merchandise of you");

(2) in the sense of "pretense," nakhar, "to be foreign," "strange" (1 Kgs 14:5, "feign herself to be another woman," 1 Kgs 14:6; compare Gen 42:7; Prov 26:24); 'abhal, "to mourn," "to act as a mourner" (2 Sam 14:2); halal, "to make a show," Hithpael, "to be mad," "to feign madness" (of David, 1 Sam 21:13; compare Jer 25:16; Jer 50:38); hupokrinomai, "to give judgment, or act, under a mask" (Luke 20:20, "who feigned themselves to be righteous");

(3) in the sense of "deceit" "fraud," "insincerity," mirmah, "prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips" (Ps 17:1); sheqer, "falsehood," "a lie," "Judah hath not returned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly" (Jer 3:10; compare /APC 2Esdras 8:28); kahash, "to lie," "to feign, or flatter" (2Sa 12:45; Ps 18:44; 66:3; 81:15), where the text of the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American), "shall submit themselves," is rendered the margin (the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American)), "yield feigned obedience, Hebrew lie." the Revised Version (British and American) has "feign" for "make" (2 Sam 13:5), and "feigned" for "made" (2 Sam 13:6).

W. L. Walker