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# נָכַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5230

**be crafty** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

be crafty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5230/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָכַל: vb. be crafty, deceitful, knavish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5230/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be crafty, deceitful, knavish (Assyrian nakâlu, be crafty, cunning; 𝔗 נְכֵל be crafty, Pa. deceive; Syriac ܢܟܶܠ deceive, plot; cf. perhaps Amh. ወነጀለ act faithlessly, ወነጌለ faithless, PräAmhar. Spr. 90);— Pt. נוֹכֵל Mal 1:14 knave. Pf. 3 mpl. c. acc. cogn. נִכְּלוּ לָכֶם נִכְלֵיהֶם אֲשֶׁר Nu 25:18 their wiles with which they beguiled you. Impf. וַיִּתְנַכְּלוּ אֹתוֹ לַהֲמִיתוֹ Gn 37:18 they knavishly planned against him (Köiii. 9), etc.; Inf. cstr. לְהִתְנַכֵּל בְּ ψ 105:25 to deal knavishly with.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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: \[one who\] deals deceptively (1); deal cunningly (1); they dealt cunningly with (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 105:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.25/#tree)

הָפַ֣ךְ לִ֭בָּם לִשְׂנֹ֣א עַמּ֑וֹ לְ֝הִתְנַכֵּ֗ל בַּעֲבָדָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* he.turned heart their to hate people his to deal.cunningly with servants his

*JPS 1917:* He turned their heart to hate His people, to deal craftily with His servants.

[Genesis 37:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.18/#tree)

וַיִּרְא֥וּ אֹת֖וֹ מֵרָחֹ֑ק וּבְטֶ֙רֶם֙ יִקְרַ֣ב אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם וַיִּֽתְנַכְּל֥וּ אֹת֖וֹ לַהֲמִיתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and they.saw him from a.distance and before he.drew.near to them and they.dealt.cunningly.with him to kill him

*JPS 1917:* And they saw him afar off, and before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5230.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5230/): 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).