פֶּלֶא
peleʼ · H6382 · Hebrew · 13 occurrences
Meanings
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miracle, marvel
State in which an event is out of the ordinary, inspiring amazement, and usually associated with the supernatural
ExamplesExodus 15:11 “Who is like You among the gods, LORD? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, Awesome in praises, working wonders?
Psalm 77:11 I shall remember the deeds of the LORD; I will certainly remember Your wonders of old.
Psalm 77:14 You are the God who works wonders; You have made known Your strength among the peoples.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךָyour 3
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָדַעto know 1
What is done to itIt is the object
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 3
- זָכַרto remember 1
- יָדָהto give thanks, to praise, to confess 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֵדוּתtestimony, decree 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 2
- קֵץend, final 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- אוֹת ʼôwth · H226 · sign, standard, souvenir
- Both words denote extraordinary events or phenomena that signal divine action or power: "sign" or "miracle" and "wonder" or "marvel."
In the other Testament 2 words
- θαυμάσιος thaumásios · G2297 · wonderful, remarkable, marvelous
- Greek θαυμάσιος renders Hebrew פֶּלֶא in contexts emphasizing the wondrous or miraculous quality of divine acts, both denoting extraordinary phenomena that evoke amazement.
- θαυμαστός thaumastós · G2298 · wonderful, remarkable, marvelous
- Greek θαυμαστός ("wonderful") serves as the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew פֶּלֶא ("marvellous thing, wonder"), capturing the core semantic domain of extraordinary phenomena that inspire wonder or amazement.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Extraordinary002001003006
- פֶּלֶא denotes a marvelous thing or wonder, as of the LORD's wonder-working power praised in Exodus 15:11 and the wonders performed before Israel's fathers in Egypt recalled in Psalm 77:12, 77:15, and 78:12.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6382. pele מֶּ֫לֶא noun masculine wonder (Late Hebrew id.; as unusual, extraordinary); —…
מֶּ֫לֶא noun masculine wonder (Late Hebrew id.; as unusual, extraordinary); — ׳פ Exo 15:11 Exo 15:6t.; suffix מִּלְאֲךָ Psa 89:6; מִּלְאֶ֑ךָ Psa 77:12; Psa 88:13, plural מְּלָאִים Lam 1:9; feminine plural מְּלָאוֺת Psa 119:129; Dan 12:6; —
1 wonder: extraordinary, hard to be understood, God's dealings with His people Isa 29:14; the testimonies of the Law Psa 119:129; יוֺעֵץ מֶּלֶא Isa 9:5 marvel of a counsellor (Baer מֵּלֶא), wonderful counsellor (of Messianic king); plural as adverb accusative פ ׳וַתֵּרֶד Lam 1:9 she (Jerusalem) hath come down marvelously.
2 wonder: of God's acts of judgment and redemption Psa 77:12; Psa 88:13; Psa 89:6; פ ׳עשׂה Exo 15:11; Isa 25:1; Psa 77:15; Psa 78:12; Psa 88:11; of extraordinary trials הפ ׳קֵץ Dan 12:6.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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