To plot
נָכַלStrong’s H5230nakhal (na-khal)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nakhal is the Hebrew word usually translated “dealt deceptively with”, “have dealt deceptively” and “deal deceptively”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.”
Meaning
- To be deceitful, be crafty, be knavish(Qal) · (Piel) to beguile · (Hithpael) to act craftily, act knavishly, deal knavishly
How it's translated
- and they dealt deceptively with 1
- they have dealt deceptively 1
- to deal deceptively 1
- deals deceptively 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Numbers 1
- Psalms 1
- Malachi 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 25:18For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake.
- Psalms 105:25He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
- Malachi 1:14But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.
Hebrew dictionary
נָכַל nakhal · to plot
1) to be deceitful, be crafty, be knavish 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be knavish 1a2) deceiver (participle) 1b) (Piel) to beguile 1c) (Hithpael) to act craftily, act knavishly, deal knavishly
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “plot” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLOT, noun
[a different orthography of plat.]
- A plat or small extent of ground; as a garden plot
- A plantation laid out.
- A plan or scheme. [Qu. the next word.]
- In surveying, a plan or draught of a field, farm or manor surveyed and delineated on paper.
All definitions and other forms of “plot”
PLOT, verb transitive
To make a plan of; to delineate.
PLOT, noun
- Any scheme, stratagem or plan of a complicated nature, or consisting of many parts, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a mischievous one.
- In dramatic writings, the knot or intrigue; the story of a play, comprising a complication of incidents which are at last unfolded by unexpected means.
- Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot
PLOT, verb intransitive
To form a scheme of mischief against another, or against a government or those who administer it. A traitor plots against his king.
- “The wicked plotteth against the just” Psalms 37:12
- To contrive a plan; to scheme.
PLOT, verb transitive
To plan; to devise; to contrive; as, to plot an unprofitable crime.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.