נֵכֶל
nêkel · H5231 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to deceive
Action by which humans cause other humans to believe something that is not true
ExamplesNumbers 25:18 for they have been hostile to you with their tricks, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the leader of Midian, their sister who was killed on the day of the plague because of Peor.”
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֶםtheir 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָכַלto deceive 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 4 words
- מִרְמָה mirmâh · H4820 · falsehood, deceit, treachery
- Both words denote deceptive behavior and could substitute in contexts of deceit or guile.
- תׇּרְמָה tormâh · H8649 · falsehood, deceit, treachery
- Both words denote deception or treachery and could substitute in contexts of deceitful action or speech.
- מַשָּׁאוֹן mashshâʼôwn · H4860 · deceit
- Both words denote deceptive or treacherous behavior (“deceit” and “wile”).
- תֹּךְ tôk · H8496 · fraud
- Both terms denote deceptive or fraudulent behavior, occupying the same semantic space of dishonesty or trickery.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- False002001003007
- The word names deceit or guile itself, the abstract noun corresponding to its verbal cognate, tying it to treacherous scheming and craftiness.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5231. nekel [נֵ֫כֶל] noun [masculine] wiliness, craft, knavery; — only plural suffix…
[נֵ֫כֶל] noun [masculine] wiliness, craft, knavery; — only plural suffix נִכְלֵיהֶם Num 25:18 their craft, their wile (as accusative of congnate meaning with verb with נִכֵּל).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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