בָּגַד bâgad — to cover (with a garment)
Translated in the KJV as deal deceitfully (treacherously, unfaithfully), offend, transgress, treacherous (dealer, -ly, man), unfaithful(-ly, × very.
a primitive root; to cover (with a garment); figuratively, to act covertly; by implication, to pillage.
bâgad in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 23Perfect (qatal) 15Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Infinitive construct 2Wayyiqtol 2Infinitive absolute 2Jussive 1
If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:
Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the Lord, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›