a liar; sliding away
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
COZBI.The Midianitess slain by Phinehas (Num_25:15; Num_25:18).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Num_25:15-18.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Coz'bi. (deceitful). Daughter of Zur, a chief of the Midianites. Num_25:15; Num_25:18.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
koz?bı̄ (כּזבּי, kozbı̄, ?deceitful?): A Midianite woman, distinguished as the daughter of Zur, ?head of the people of a fathers' house in Midian.? She was slain by Phinehas at Shittim in company with ?Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers' house among the Simeonites? (Num_25:6-18).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Cozbi
(Heb. כָּזְבַּי, Kozbi, false; Sept. Χασβί; Joseph. Χοσβία, Ant. 4, 6, 10), the daughter of Zur, a Midianitish prince. Phinehas, in his holy indignation, slew her, while in the act of committing lewdness with Zimri, an Israelitish chief, by thrusting a javelin through the middle of both (Num_25:15; Num_25:18). B.C. 1619.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.