To deceive
נָשָׁאStrong’s H5377nasah (na-sah)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nasah is the Hebrew word usually translated “deceive”, “deceive you” and “deceived me”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.”
Meaning
- To beguile, deceive(Niphal) to be beguiled · (Hiphil) to beguile, deceive · (Qal) utterly (infinitive)
How it's translated
- he deceive 3
- he deceive you 2
- deceived me 1
- may it deceive death 1
- he will deceive 1
- they have been deceived 1
- certainly 1
- you have deceived 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 4
- Isaiah 3
- 2 Kings 2
- Psalms 2
- Obadiah 2
- Genesis 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 18:29Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
- 2 Kings 19:10Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
- 2 Chronicles 32:15Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?
- Psalms 55:15Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
- Psalms 89:22The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
- Isaiah 19:13The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
Hebrew dictionary
נָשָׁא nasah · to deceive
1) to beguile, deceive 1a) (Niphal) to be beguiled 1b) (Hiphil) to beguile, deceive 1c) (Qal) utterly (infinitive)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “deceive” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DECE'IVE, verb transitive
[L to take asid, to ensnare.]
- To mislead the mind; to cause to err; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose on; to delude.“Take heed that no man deceive you” Matthew 24:4
- To beguile; to cheat.
- To cut off from expectation; to frustrate or disappoint; as, his hopes were deceived.
- To take from; to rob.
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.