נָשָׁא nâshâʼ — to lead astray, i.e. (mentally) to delude, or (morally) to seduce
Translated in the KJV as beguile, deceive, × greatly, × utterly.
a primitive root; to lead astray, i.e. (mentally) to delude, or (morally) to seduce.
nâshâʼ in each stem
Hiph'il
Jussive 8Perfect (qatal) 5Infinitive absolute 1
And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
Qal (Pa'al)
Infinitive absolute 1
Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:
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 ›