פָּעַל paal

Hebrew word for “to work” · Strong’s H6466 · used 57 times in 56 verses

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Meaning

1) to do, make; 1a) (Qal); 1a1) to do; 1a2) to make

How it is translated

Glosses given for paal in context, with how often each is used:

• those who do 21
• have done 5
• has he done 2
• doers 2
• do 2
• makes 2
• have made 1
• did 1
• do i do 1
• will you do 1
• will he do 1
• does 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Job 34 (3), Job 36 (2), Psalms 7 (2), Psalms 92 (2), Psalms 94 (2), Psalms 141 (2), Isaiah 44 (2), Exodus 15 (1), Numbers 23 (1), Deuteronomy 32 (1)

Forms

• פעלי 19
• פעל 7
• פעלת 6
• יפעל 5
• לפעלי 3
• פעלו 3
• אפעל 2
• תפעל 2
• פעלתי 2
• ופעל 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with paal more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אָוֶן aven “evil” 25
• מָה mah “what?” 7
• עַוְלָה avlah “injustice” 4
• אֵל el “God” 5
• רַע ra “bad” 6
• רָשָׁע rasah “wicked” 4
• גַּם gam “also” 5
• סָתַר satar “to hide” 3
• מִי mi “who?” 4
• רָעַע raa “be evil” 3
• צֶדֶק tsedeq “righteousness” 3
• אַף aph “also” 3

Key verses

The verses using paal that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Numbers 23:23 — Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel,…
• Psalms 14:4 — Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
• Psalms 15:2 — He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
• Psalms 31:19 — Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
• Psalms 44:1 — [To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.] We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in…
• Psalms 92:7 — When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
• Psalms 125:5 — As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
• Isaiah 41:4 — Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
• Isaiah 43:13 — Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
• Hosea 7:1 — When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh…
• Micah 2:1 — Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
• Zephaniah 2:3 — Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.