hatal · deceive, mock

What it means

hatal (הָתַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “deceive, mock”.

Mock, trifle with someone by deceiving them.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To deceive someone and laugh at him, toying with his trust.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• you have deceived ×3
• deceives ×2
• deal deceitfully ×1
• deceived ×1
• has cheated ×1
• mocked ×1
• will you deceive ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Judges×3
• 1 Kings×1
• Job×2
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1

• Genesis 31:7

  Yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but Elohim did not allow him to do harm to me.

• Exodus 8:29

  Moses said, “Look, I am going out from you, and I will pray to YHWH, and the swarms of flies will depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. Only let Pharaoh not again deal deceitfully by not letting the people go to sacrifice to YHWH.”

• Judges 16:10

  And Delilah said to Samson, “Look, you have deceived me and told me lies. Now tell me, please, with what you could be bound.”

• Judges 16:13

  And Delilah said to Samson, “Until now you have deceived me and told me lies. Tell me with what you could be bound.” And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the warp…”

• Judges 16:15

  And she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? These three times you have deceived me and have not told me in what your great strength lies.”

• 1 Kings 18:27

  And it happened at noon that Elijah mocked them and said, “Call out with a loud voice, for he is a god! Perhaps he is musing, or he has stepped aside, or he is on a journey; perhaps he is asleep and must wake up.”

• Job 13:9

  Will it be good when he searches you out? Or as one deceives a mortal, will you deceive him?

• Isaiah 44:20

  He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has led him astray, and he does not deliver his soul nor say, “Is there not falsehood in my right hand?”

• Jeremiah 9:5

  And each deceives his neighbor, and truth they do not speak; they have taught their tongue to speak falsehood; they weary themselves committing iniquity.

And 1 more times.