Word

פִּלְאִי

pilʼîy · H6383 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. wonderful

    State in which an event is out of the ordinary, inspiring amazement, and usually associated with the supernatural

    Examples

    Judges 13:18 But the angel of the LORD said to him, “Why do you ask my name, for it is wonderful?”

    Psalm 139:6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is too high, I cannot comprehend it.

How it’s used In 1 role

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
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פִּלְאִי describes something secret or wonderful, an extraordinary quality beyond ordinary understanding.
Word family 4 words
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6383. pili or pali [מָּלִיא] see following. [מִּלְאִי] adjective wonderful,…
H6383. pili
or pali [מָּלִיא] see following.
[מִּלְאִי] adjective wonderful, incomprehensible; — masculine פלאי (i.e. מִּלְאִי) Kt, Jdg 13:18 (name of י ׳מַלְאַךְ; > Qr מֶּ֫לִי(אׅ); feminine מִמֶּנִּי דַעַת פלאיה (i.e. מִּלְאִיָה) Psa 139:6 God's knowledge; > Qr מְּלִיאָה.

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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