פָּלִיל
pâlîyl · H6414 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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judge
A person whose responsibility it is to give a verdict on a case or person in a dispute and ensure that the verdict is implemented, which, ideally, results in vindication for the innocent and punishment for the guilty; this can only be done by someone in authority, such as a judge or ruler or even God himself
ExamplesExodus 21:22 “Now if people struggle with each other and strike a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, but there is no injury, the guilty person shall certainly be fined as the woman’s husband may demand of him, and he shall pay as the judges decide.
Deuteronomy 32:31 “Indeed, their rock is not like our Rock; Even our enemies themselves judge this.
Job 31:11 “For that would be a lustful crime; Moreover, it would be wrongdoing punishable by judges.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָוֺןiniquity 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֹיֵבenemy 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
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 2 words
- שָׁפַט shâphaṭ · H8199 · to judge, to pronounce judgement, to administer justice
- The standard and most common Hebrew term for 'judge'; פָּלִיל appears to be a rarer poetic/elevated synonym with the same core sense of one who judges or arbitrates.
- דַּיָּן dayân · H1782 · judge
- Another Hebrew term for 'judge' (particularly used in later Hebrew and Aramaic contexts); shares the same semantic function of one who exercises judgment.
In the other Testament 1 word
- κριτής kritḗs · G2923 · judge
- Standard Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew פָּלִיל (judge); both denote one who judges or arbitrates disputes.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- פָּלִיל denotes a judge or arbiter, one whose assessment determines a penalty, as when judges must assess the fine for injuring a pregnant woman in Exodus 21:22, and when wrongdoing is to be judged and punished in Job 31:11.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6414. palil [מָּלִיל] noun masculine judge; plural מְּלִילִים Deu 32:31 our enemies…
[מָּלִיל] noun masculine judge; plural מְּלִילִים Deu 32:31 our enemies being judges, umpires; פ ׳עָוֺן Job 31:11, read פ ׳עֲוֺן according to Di Siegf, compare De; < מְּלִילִי עָוֺן as Job 31:28, so Bu Du; בִּפְלִלִים Exo 21:22, read perhaps בַּנְּפָלִים for the abortion BuZAW xi (1891), 107, compare also Di-Ry.
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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