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"