תָּעַע tâʻaʻ — to cheat

pronounced taw-ah' · Strong's H8591 · 2 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 2 stems: Pilpel, Hitpalpel

Translated in the KJV as deceive, misuse.

a primitive root; to cheat; by analogy, to maltreat.

tâʻaʻ in each stem

Pilpel 1×

Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it

Participle (active) 1

כִּמְתַעְתֵּ֑עַ Gen 27:12 Participle (active), masculine singular

My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing. (KJV)

Hitpalpel 1×

Intensive · reflexive — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it to or for themselves

Participle (active) 1

וּמִֽתַּעְתְּעִ֖ים 2Chr 36:16 Participle (active), masculine plural

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy. (KJV)

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 ›

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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