H5230

נכל

נכל

nakal

Verb · A primary root

A primitive root; to defraud, i.e. act treacherously:—beguile, conspire, deceiver, deal subtilly.

Outline

to be deceitful, be crafty, be knavish

(Qal)

to be knavish
deceiver (participle)

(Piel) to beguile
(Hithpael) to act craftily, act knavishly, deal knavishly

Usages

Genesis 37:18

And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

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Numbers 25:18

For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake.

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Psalms 105:25

He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.

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Malachi 1:14

But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.

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