Sleight
Sleight
SLEIGHT.The word tr. [Note: translate or translation.] sleight in Eph 4:14, by the sleight of men, means literally dice-playing. Tindale uses wylynes, which is more intelligible now than sleight.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Sleight
slt: No connection with slight, but from the same root as sly and so = cunning. So in Eph 4:14, sleight of men, for , kubea, dice-plalying (compare cube) gamblers’ tricks trickery.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Sleight
denotes “dice playing” (from kubos, “a cube, a die” as used in gaming); hence, metaphorically, “trickery, sleight,” Eph 4:14. The Eng. word is connected with “sly” (“not with slight”).