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Strong's #5230: nakal (pronounced naw-kal')

a prim root; to defraud, i.e. act treacherously:--beguile, conspire, deceiver, deal subtilly.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

nâkal

1) to be deceitful, be crafty, be knavish

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to be knavish

1a2) deceiver (participle)

1b) (Piel) to beguile

1c) (Hithpael) to act craftily, act knavishly, deal knavishly

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primary root



Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

Genesis 37:18: "him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay"
Numbers 25:18: "vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in"
Psalms 105:25: "their heart to hate his people, to deal subtlely with his servants."
Malachi 1:14: "But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord"









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