STRONGS NUMBER H2048


Word Summary
hathal: to deceive, mock
Original Word: הָתַל
Transliteration: hathal
Phonetic Spelling: (haw-thal')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to deceive, mock
Meaning: to deride, to cheat
Strong's Concordance
deal deceitfully, deceive, mock

A primitive root; to deride; by implication, to cheat -- deal deceitfully, deceive, mock.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2048. hathal

[הָתַל‎] verb — only

Pi`el deceive, mock, Imperfect בָּהֶם וַיְהַתֵּל1 Kings 18:27 (secondary formation from תלל‎ Hiph`il, q. v.; compare Thes Ol§ 257 f. near the end Sta§ 145 e; otherwise Köi. 352; see further below תלל‎).

II. [תָּלַל‎] verb Hiph`il mock, deceive, trifle with (perhaps akin to Arabic act coquettishly; compare secondary √ [הָתַל‎]); — mock trifle with, with ב‎ person: Perfect3masculine singular (בִּיׅ הֵ֫תֶלGenesis 31:7 (E), 2 masculine singular הֵתַ֫לְתָּJudges 16:10, 13, 15; Imperfect3masculine plural יְהָתֵ֫לּוּJeremiah 9:4, 2masculine plural תְּהָתֵ֫לּוּJob 13:9 (on both see Ges§ 53q Baeron the passage); Infinitive construct 13:19 and (absolute) Exodus 8:25 (J).

Hoph`al Perfect3masculine singular הוּתַלIsaiah 44:20 a heart (which) is deceived. — See [הָתַל‎], הֲתֻלִים‎ p. 251.

תלם‎ (√ of following; compare Late Hebrew תֶּלֶם‎ = Biblical Hebrew; Arabic , modern Palestinian BergheimPEF 1894, 195; Ethiopic Aramaic תְּלָמָא‎; the nearest verbal v is Arabic break edge of, make a breach, gap, but = compare Frä131).