Hebrew verb · H6466
פָּעַל
paalpaw-al'
to work
57 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pâʻal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6466is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 11 of 39Old Testament books
- 37spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6466
to do or make (systematically and habitually), especially to practise
The King James renders it: commit, (evil-) do(-er), make(-r), ordain, work(-er).
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
paal is rendered "to work". It stands 57 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.
- Twenty-six of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 15:17You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance—the place, O LORD, You have prepared for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, Your hands have established.
- The Greek text spells it thirty-seven different ways.
The first use
You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance—the place, O LORD, You have prepared for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, Your hands have established.
Exodus 15:17פָּעַ֖לְתָּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- do17
- you have done3
- doers of2
- has he done2
- he makes2
- I have done2
- they do2
- to do2
- about to do1
- and do1
- and does1
- and he worked it1
and 21 more, 57 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.
The words it stands beside
All 57, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
37 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
- פֹּ֣עֲלֵי8
- פֹּ֥עֲלֵי6
- פָּעַ֥לְתָּ4
- לְפֹ֣עֲלֵי3
- יִפְעַל־2
- יִפְעָֽל׃2
- פֹּ֪עֲלֵ֫י2
- אֶפְעַ֖ל1
- אֶפְעַ֨ל׀1
- וַיִּפְעָלֵ֙הוּ֙1
- וּ֝לְפֹעֲלִ֗י1
- וּפָעַל֙1
and 25 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)19HVqrmpc
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular6HVqp2ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular5HVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular5HVqp3ms
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)4HR/Vqrmpc
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural3HVqp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular2HVqi1cs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVqi2ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular2HVqp1cs
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular2HVqrmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HC/R/Vqrmsc/Sp1bs
- Hc/Vqq3ms1Hc/Vqq3ms
Exodus
one use
You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance—the place, O LORD, You have prepared for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, Your hands have established.
- פָּעַ֖לְתָּpaaltaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have made
Numbers
one use
For there is no spell against Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What great things God has done!’
- פָּ֖עַלpaalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: has he done
Deuteronomy
one use
if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”
- פָּעַ֥לpaalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he did
Job
twelve uses
If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?
- אֶפְעַ֨ל׀ʾefalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: do I do
They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
- תִּפְעָ֑לtifalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: will you do
They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’
- יִּפְעַ֖לyifalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will he do
Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
- לְפֹ֣עֲלֵיlefoaleipreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to do
Behold, all these things God does to a man, two or even three times,
- יִפְעַל־yifal-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he does
He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.
- פֹּ֣עֲלֵיpoaleiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: doers of
There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.
- פֹּ֣עֲלֵיpoaleiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: do
Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.’
- פָּ֝עַ֗לְתִּיpaaltiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have done
If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
- תִּפְעָל־tifol-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: do you do
I get my knowledge from afar, and I will ascribe justice to my Maker.
- וּ֝לְפֹעֲלִ֗יulefoaliconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and to maker my
Who has appointed His way for Him, or told Him, ‘You have done wrong’?
- פָּעַ֥לְתָּpaaltaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have done
They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.
- לְפָעֳלָ֑םlefoolampreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to do they
Psalms
twenty-six uses
The boastful cannot stand in Your presence; You hate all workers of iniquity.
- פֹּ֥עֲלֵיpoaleiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: do
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping.
- פֹּ֣עֲלֵיpoaleiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: do
He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.
- יִפְעָֽל׃yifalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will make
He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
- יִפְעָֽל׃yifalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he made
If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
- פָּעָֽל׃paalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: does he do
Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
- פֹּ֪עֲלֵ֫יpoaleiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: do
He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart,
- וּפֹעֵ֥לufoelconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and does
Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.
- פֹּ֪עֲלֵ֫יpoaleiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: do
How great is Your goodness which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have bestowed before the sons of men on those who take refuge in You!
- פָּ֭עַלְתָּpaaltaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have done
There the evildoers lie fallen, thrown down and unable to rise.
- פֹּ֣עֲלֵיpoaleiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: do
We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
- פָּעַ֥לְתָּpaaltaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you did
Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon God.
- פֹּ֤עֲלֵ֫יpoaleiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: do
No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.
- תִּפְעָ֫ל֥וּןtifalunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you do
Deliver me from workers of iniquity, and save me from men of bloodshed.
- מִפֹּ֣עֲלֵיmipoaleipreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from do
Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity,
- פֹּ֣עֲלֵיpoaleiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: do
Summon Your power, O God; show Your strength, O God, which You have exerted on our behalf.
- פָּעַ֥לְתָּpaaltaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have acted
Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.
- פֹּעֵ֥לpoelverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: does
that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
- פֹּ֣עֲלֵיpoaleiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: do
For surely Your enemies, O LORD, surely Your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.
- פֹּ֥עֲלֵיpoaleiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: do
They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast.
- פֹּ֥עֲלֵיpoaleiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: do
Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand for me against the workers of iniquity?
- פֹּ֥עֲלֵיpoaleiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: do
Every morning I will remove all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.
- פֹּ֥עֲלֵיpoaleiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: do
They do no iniquity; they walk in His ways.
- פָעֲל֣וּfaaluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they do
But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
- פֹּעֲלֵ֣יpoaleiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: do
Do not let my heart be drawn to any evil thing or take part in works of wickedness with men who do iniquity; let me not feast on their delicacies.
- פֹּֽעֲלֵי־poalei-verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: do
Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and from the lures of evildoers.
- פֹּ֣עֲלֵיpoaleiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: do
Proverbs
four uses
The way of the LORD is a refuge to the upright, but destruction awaits those who do evil.
- לְפֹ֣עֲלֵיlefoaleipreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: for do
The LORD has made everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.
- פָּעַ֣לpaalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he makes
Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity.
- לְפֹ֣עֲלֵיlefoaleipreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to do
This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
- פָעַ֥לְתִּיfaaltiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have done
Isaiah
seven uses
O LORD, You will establish peace for us. For all that we have accomplished, You have done for us.
- פָּעַ֥לְתָּpaaltaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have done
Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.
- פֹּ֥עֲלֵיpoaleiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: do
Who has performed this and carried it out, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD—the first and the last—I am He.”
- פָעַ֣לfaalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: has he done
Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”
- אֶפְעַ֖לʾefalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I act
The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint.
- וּפָעַל֙ufaalHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he works
- וַיִּפְעָלֵ֙הוּ֙vaiyifalehuHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he worked it
It serves as fuel for man. He takes some of it to warm himself, and he kindles a fire and bakes his bread; he even fashions it into a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it.
- יִפְעַל־yifal-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he makes
Hosea
two uses
Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with footprints of blood.
- פֹּ֣עֲלֵיpoaleiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: doers of
When I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim will be exposed, as well as the crimes of Samaria. For they practice deceit and thieves break in; bandits raid in the streets.
- פָעֲל֖וּfaaluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they do
Micah
one use
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
- וּפֹ֥עֲלֵיufoaleiconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and do
Habakkuk
one use
“Look at the nations and observe—be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you.
- פֹּעֵ֣לpoelverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to do
Zephaniah
one use
Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.
- פָּעָ֑לוּpaaluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have done
Where it leads
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.