Hebrew verb · H5230
נָכַל
nakalnaw-kal'
to plot
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nâkal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5230is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5230
to defraud, i.e. act treacherously
The King James renders it: beguile, conspire, deceiver, deal subtilly.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
nakal is rendered "to plot". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- One of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 37:18Now Joseph’s brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Now Joseph’s brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him.
Genesis 37:18וַיִּֽתְנַכְּל֥וּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and they dealt deceptively with1
- deals deceptively1
- they have dealt deceptively1
- to deal deceptively1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| נָכַר | nakar | to recognize | Uses49 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וַיִּֽתְנַכְּל֥וּ1
- לְ֝הִתְנַכֵּ֗ל1
- נוֹכֵ֗ל1
- נִכְּל֥וּ1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vtw3mp1Hc/Vtw3mp
- preposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vtcc
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVpp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HVqrmsa
Genesis
one use
Now Joseph’s brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him.
- וַיִּֽתְנַכְּל֥וּvaiyitnakeluHc/Vtw3mptagged: and they dealt deceptively with
Numbers
one use
For they assailed you deceitfully when they seduced you in the matter of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of the Midianite leader, the woman who was killed on the day the plague came because of Peor.”
- נִכְּל֥וּnikeluverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have dealt deceptively
Psalms
one use
whose hearts He turned to hate His people, to conspire against His servants.
- לְ֝הִתְנַכֵּ֗לlehitnakelpreposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to deal deceptively
Malachi
one use
“But cursed is the deceiver who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and My name is to be feared among the nations.
- נוֹכֵ֗לnokhelverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: deals deceptively
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.