King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H5230
Transliteration: nakal
Phonetic Spelling: (naw-kal')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be crafty, deceitful or knavish
Meaning: to be crafty, deceitful or knavish
Word Summary
nakal: to be crafty, deceitful or knavish
Original Word: נָכַלTransliteration: nakal
Phonetic Spelling: (naw-kal')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be crafty, deceitful or knavish
Meaning: to be crafty, deceitful or knavish
Strong's Concordance
beguile, conspire, deceiver, deal subtilly A prim root; to defraud, i.e. Act treacherously -- beguile, conspire, deceiver, deal subtilly.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H5230. nakal
[נָכַל] verb be crafty, deceitful, knavish (Assyrian nakâlu, be crafty, cunning; נְכֵל ᵑ7 be crafty, Pa`el deceive; Syriac deceive, plot; compare perhaps act faithlessly, faithless, PräAmhar. Spr. 90); —
Qal Participle נוֺכֵל Malachi 1:14 knave.
Pi`el Perfect3masculine plural with accusative of congnate meaning with verb לָכֶם נִכְּלוּ אֲשֶׁר נִכְלֵיהֶם Numbers 25:18 their wiles with which they beguiled you.
Hithpa`el Imperfect לַהֲמִיתוֺ אֹתוֺ וַיִּתְנַכְּלוּ Genesis 37:18 they knavishly planned against him (Köiii. 9), etc.; Infinitive construct בְ לְחִתְנַכֵּל Psalm 105:25 to deal knavishly with.