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נֵכֶל

ne.khel

trick

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Strong’s H5231Noun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

deceitfulness1

In the text

Numbers 25:18בְּנִכְלֵיהֶם
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.”

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[נֵ֫כֶל] n.[m.] wiliness, craft, knavery;—only Nu 25:18

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.