Lexical 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. |
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