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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4159

מוֹפֵת

mophethmo-faith'

wonder

36 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: môwphêth

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4159is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 12 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 34
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H4159

a miracle; by implication, a token or omen

The King James renders it: miracle, sign, wonder(-ed at).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

mopheth is rendered "wonder". It stands 36 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.

  • Nine of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 4:21The LORD instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.
  • The Greek text spells it thirty-four different ways.

The first use

The LORD instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.

Exodus 4:21הַמֹּֽפְתִים֙

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Nine of the word's thirty-six uses are in Deuteronomy.

The other 27 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and wonders5
  • and by wonders3
  • and the wonders3
  • a sign2
  • a wonder2
  • into a sign2
  • the sign2
  • the wonders2
  • wonders my2
  • according to the sign1
  • and a portent1
  • and a sign1

and 10 more, 36 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

All 36, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

34 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • לְמוֹפֵ֔ת2
  • מוֹפְתַ֖י2
  • הַמּוֹפֵ֔ת1
  • הַמּוֹפֵת֙1
  • הַמֹּֽפְתִים֙1
  • הַמֹּפְתִ֥ים1
  • וּבְמוֹפְתִ֜ים1
  • וּבְמוֹפְתִ֗ים1
  • וּבְמֹפְתִֽים׃1
  • וְהַמּוֹפֵ֔ת1
  • וְהַמּוֹפְתִ֗ים1
  • וְהַמֹּֽפְתִים֙1

and 22 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural5HC/Ncmpa
  • noun · masculine singular5HNcmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural4HC/R/Ncmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural3HC/Td/Ncmpa
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular3HR/Ncmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular2HC/Ncmsa
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HNcmpc/Sp1bs
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HNcmpc/Sp3ms
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural2HTd/Ncmpa
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HTd/Ncmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Ncmpc/Sp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmsa

Exodus

five uses
  • The LORD instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.

    Exodus 4:21

    • הַמֹּֽפְתִים֙hamofetimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the wonders
  • But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I will multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,

    Exodus 7:3

    • מוֹפְתַ֖יmoftainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: wonders my
  • “When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ you are to say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a serpent.”

    Exodus 7:9

    • מוֹפֵ֑תmofetnoun · masculine singulartagged: a wonder
  • The LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that My wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”

    Exodus 11:9

    • מוֹפְתַ֖יmoftainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: wonders my
  • Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart so that he would not let the Israelites go out of his land.

    Exodus 11:10

    • הַמֹּפְתִ֥יםhamofetimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the wonders

Deuteronomy

nine uses
  • Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?

    Deuteronomy 4:34

    • וּבְמוֹפְתִ֜יםuvemoftimconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and by wonders
  • Before our eyes the LORD inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household.

    Deuteronomy 6:22

    • וּ֠מֹפְתִיםumofetimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and wonders
  • the great trials that you saw, the signs and wonders, and the mighty hand and outstretched arm by which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.

    Deuteronomy 7:19

    • וְהַמֹּֽפְתִים֙vehamofetimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the wonders
  • If a prophet or dreamer of dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you,

    Deuteronomy 13:1

    • מוֹפֵֽת׃mofetnoun · masculine singulartagged: a wonder
  • and if the sign or wonder he has spoken to you comes about, but he says, “Let us follow other gods (which you have not known) and let us worship them,”

    Deuteronomy 13:2

    • וְהַמּוֹפֵ֔תvehamofetconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the wonder
  • Then the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror, signs, and wonders.

    Deuteronomy 26:8

    • וּבְמֹפְתִֽים׃uvemofetimconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and by wonders
  • These curses will be a sign and a wonder upon you and your descendants forever.

    Deuteronomy 28:46

    • וּלְמוֹפֵ֑תulemofetconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and into a wonder
  • You saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders.

    Deuteronomy 29:3

    • וְהַמֹּפְתִ֛יםvehamofetimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the wonders
  • no prophet who did all the signs and wonders that the LORD sent Moses to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his officials and all his land,

    Deuteronomy 34:11

    • וְהַמּוֹפְתִ֗יםvehamoftimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the wonders

1 Kings

three uses
  • That day the man of God gave a sign, saying, “The LORD has spoken this sign: ‘Surely the altar will be split apart, and the ashes upon it will be poured out.’”

    1 Kings 13:3

    • מוֹפֵת֙mofetnoun · masculine singulartagged: a sign
    • הַמּוֹפֵ֔תhamofetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the sign
  • And the altar was split apart, and the ashes poured out, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.

    1 Kings 13:5

    • כַּמּוֹפֵ֗תkamofetpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: according to the sign

1 Chronicles

one use
  • Remember the wonders He has done, His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced,

    1 Chronicles 16:12

    • מֹפְתָ֖יוmofetavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: wonders his

2 Chronicles

two uses
  • In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. So he prayed to the LORD, who spoke to him and gave him a sign.

    2 Chronicles 32:24

    • וּמוֹפֵ֖תumofetconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a sign
  • And so when ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone to test him, that He might know all that was in Hezekiah’s heart.

    2 Chronicles 32:31

    • הַמּוֹפֵת֙hamofetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the sign

Nehemiah

one use
  • You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the people of his land, for You knew they had acted with arrogance against our fathers. You made a name for Yourself that endures to this day.

    Nehemiah 9:10

    • וּמֹֽפְתִ֜יםumofetimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and wonders

Psalms

five uses
  • I have become a portent to many, but You are my strong refuge.

    Psalms 71:7

    • כְּ֭מוֹפֵתkemofetpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like a portent
  • when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.

    Psalms 78:43

    • וּ֝מוֹפְתָ֗יוumoftavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and wonders his
  • Remember the wonders He has done, His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced,

    Psalms 105:5

    • מֹ֝פְתָ֗יוmofetavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: signs his
  • They performed His miraculous signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

    Psalms 105:27

    • וּ֝מֹפְתִ֗יםumofetimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and wonders
  • He sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his servants.

    Psalms 135:9

    • וּ֭מֹפְתִיםumofetimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and wonders

Isaiah

two uses
  • Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.

    Isaiah 8:18

    • וּלְמוֹפְתִ֖יםulemoftimconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and for portents
  • Then the LORD said, “Just as My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and omen against Egypt and Cush,

    Isaiah 20:3

    • וּמוֹפֵ֔תumofetconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a portent

Jeremiah

two uses
  • You performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and You do so to this very day, both in Israel and among all mankind. And You have made a name for Yourself, as is the case to this day.

    Jeremiah 32:20

    • וּמֹפְתִ֤יםumofetimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and wonders
  • You brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great terror.

    Jeremiah 32:21

    • וּבְמוֹפְתִ֗יםuvemoftimconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and by wonders

Ezekiel

four uses
  • And as they watch, lift your bags to your shoulder and take them out at dusk; cover your face so that you cannot see the land. For I have made you a sign to the house of Israel.”

    Ezekiel 12:6

    • מוֹפֵ֥תmofetnoun · masculine singulartagged: a sign
  • You are to say, ‘I am a sign to you.’ Just as it happened here, so will it be done to them; they will go into exile as captives.

    Ezekiel 12:11

    • מֽוֹפֶתְכֶ֑םmofetkhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: sign your
  • ‘Thus Ezekiel will be a sign for you; you will do everything that he has done. When this happens, you will know that I am the Lord GOD.’

    Ezekiel 24:24

    • לְמוֹפֵ֔תlemofetpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into a sign
  • On that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped; you will speak and no longer be mute. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the LORD.”

    Ezekiel 24:27

    • לְמוֹפֵ֔תlemofetpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into a sign

Joel

one use
  • I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.

    Joel 2:30

    • מֽוֹפְתִ֔יםmoftimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: wonders

Zechariah

one use
  • Hear now, O high priest Joshua, you and your companions seated before you, who are indeed a sign. For behold, I am going to bring My servant, the Branch.

    Zechariah 3:8

    • מוֹפֵ֖תmofetnoun · masculine singulartagged: sign

The letters

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How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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