Trick
נֵ֫כֶלStrong’s H5231nekhel (ne-khel)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Nekhel is the Hebrew word usually translated “deceitfulness their”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“For 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.”
Meaning
- Cunning, wiliness, craft, knavery
How it's translated
- by deceitfulness their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
נֵ֫כֶל nekhel · trick
cunning, wiliness, craft, knavery
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “trick” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TRICK, noun
[Latin tricor, to play tricks, to trifle, to baffle. We see the same root in the Low Latin intrico, to fold, and in intrigue. trick is from drawing, that is, a drawing aside, or a folding, interweaving, implication.]
- An artifice or stratagem for the purpose of deception; a fraudful contrivance for an evil purpose, or an underhand scheme to impose upon the world; a cheat or cheating.
- A dexterous artifice.
- Vicious practice; as the tricks of youth.
- The sly artifice or legerdemain of a juggler; as the tricks of a merry Andrew.
All definitions and other forms of “trick”
- A collection of cards laid together.
- An unexpected event.
- A particular habit or manner; as, he has a trick of drumming with his fingers, or a trick of frowning. [This word is in common use in America, and by no means vulgar.]
TRICK, verb transitive
To deceive; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse.
TRICK, verb transitive
To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically.
TRICK, verb intransitive
To live by deception and fraud.
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.