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