Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

اخدعهُ

Root: خدع

Form: 4

Full Definition

اخدعهُIV : see 1, first signification.

def.2 He incited him to deceive, delude, beguile, circumvent, or outwit; or to desire to do to another a foul, an abominable, or an evil, action, without the latter's knowing whence it proceeded; or to pretend to another something different from that which was in his mind. In the Kur ii. 8, quoted above, Yahyà Ibn-Yaamar reads, وَمَا يُخْدِعُونَ.


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