נָכַל nâkal — to defraud, i.e. act treacherously
Translated in the KJV as beguile, conspire, deceiver, deal subtilly.
a primitive root; to defraud, i.e. act treacherously.
nâkal in each stem
Hitpa'el
Wayyiqtol 1Infinitive construct 1
And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.
He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 1
For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake.
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 1
But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the Lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.
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 ›