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# הָתַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2048

**deceive** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

deceive [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2048/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הָתַל: vb. deceive, mock [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2048/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.—only deceive, mock, Impf. וַיְהַתֵּל בָּהֶם 1 K 18:27 (secondary formation from תלל Hiph., q.v.; cf. Thes Ol§ 257 f. ad fin. Sta§ 145 e; otherwise Köi 352; v. further sub תלל).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he mocked (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 18:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.27/#tree)

וַיְהִ֨י בַֽצָּהֳרַ֜יִם וַיְהַתֵּ֧ל בָּהֶ֣ם אֵלִיָּ֗הוּ וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ קִרְא֤וּ בְקוֹל־גָּדוֹל֙ כִּֽי־אֱלֹהִ֣ים ה֔וּא כִּ֣י שִׂ֧יחַ וְכִֽי־שִׂ֛יג ל֖וֹ וְכִֽי־דֶ֣רֶךְ ל֑וֹ אוּלַ֛י יָשֵׁ֥ן ה֖וּא וְיִקָֽץ׃

*Word for word:* and it.was at the noontide(s) and he.mocked (in) them Elijah and he.said call.out with a.voice great (dm) \[is\].a.god he (dm) musing and (dm) a.going.away \[belongs\].to him and (dm) a.journey \[belongs\].to him perhaps \[is\].sleeping he and he.will.awake

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said: 'Cry aloud; for he is a god; either he is musing, or he is gone aside, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2048.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2048/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).