פְּעֻלָּה
pᵉʻullâh · H6468 · Hebrew · 14 occurrences
Meanings
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deed
An activity performed by a person or deity
Examples2 Chronicles 15:7 “But you, be strong and do not lose courage, for there is a reward for your work.”
Psalm 28:5 Because they do not regard the works of the LORD Nor the deeds of His hands, He will tear them down and not build them up.
Jeremiah 31:16 This is what the LORD says: “Restrain your voice from weeping And your eyes from tears; For your work will be rewarded,” declares the LORD, “And they will return from the land of the enemy.
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deeds, practices
A pattern of activities performed by a person or deity, with the primary focus on whether these activities are good or evil
ExamplesPsalm 17:4 As for the works of mankind, by the word of Your lips I have kept from the ways of the violent.
Isaiah 65:7 Both your own wrongdoings and the wrongdoings of your fathers together,” says the LORD. “Because they have burned incense on the mountains And scorned Me on the hills, Therefore I will measure their former work into their laps.”
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wages, payment, reward, recompense
Payment for work, either with money or in kind; by extension: all that happens in return for one's actions
ExamplesLeviticus 19:13 ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired worker are not to remain with you all night until morning.
Psalm 109:20 May this be the reward of my accusers from the LORD, And of those who speak evil against my soul.
Proverbs 10:16 The wages of the righteous is life, The income of the wicked, punishment.
How it’s used In 7 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
14 occurrences in 11 groups
- הוּhis 3
- Other words · 10 groups that occur once or twice (11) 11
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- עָבַדto serve, to work 1
- רִאשׁוֹןfirst, former 1
What is done to itIt is the object
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- לוּןto spend the night, to grumble 1
- מָדַדto measure 1
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 1
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
What it is said to bePredicate
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- פָּנִיםface, presence, before 2
- חַיalive, living 1
- אֱלֹהִיםGod, gods 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- זֹאתthis 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- לto/for 4
- אֵלto, toward 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 2 words
- מַעֲלָל maʻălâl · H4611 · deed, deeds, practices
- Both words denote kinds of work or deeds and could substitute for each other in some contexts.
- מַעֲשֶׂה maʻăseh · H4639 · deed, deeds, practices
- Both words denote concrete action or work product (“deed,” “labor,” “work,” “thing made”).
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἔργον érgon · G2041 · act, deed, work
- Greek ἔργον (érgon, G2041) serves as the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew פְּעֻלָּה (pᵉʻullâh, H6468), both denoting work/labor as concrete activity or its resulting reward/wages, with ἔργον carrying slightly broader occupational and deed-oriented connotations while פְּעֻלָּה more specifically emphasizes the fruit or recompense of labor.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Happen002002003003
- פְּעֻלָּה denotes work or a deed done, as of the works of mankind considered in Psalm 17:4 and the works of the LORD not regarded by the wicked in Psalm 28:5.
- Act002002002001
- The word denotes labor performed, as of the reward promised for one's work in 2 Chronicles 15:7.
- Possess002003002019
- The word also denotes wages or reward, something due to be received in exchange for labor, as of the wages of a hired worker that must not remain with the employer overnight in Leviticus 19:13, and the reward wished upon one's accusers in Psalm 109:20.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6468. peullah [מְּעֻלָּה] noun feminine work, recompence (in poetry and late); —…
[מְּעֻלָּה] noun feminine work, recompence (in poetry and late); — construct מְּעֻלַּת Lev 19:13 +, suffix מְּעֻלָּתִי Isa 49:4, etc.; plural construct מְּעֻלּוֺת Psa 17:4, תֹ- Psa 28:5; —
1 work:
a. plural deeds of ׳י Psa 28:5.
b. of men, Psa 17:4 (plural); toil, suffering Jer 31:16; good action 2Ch 15:7, wicked Isa 65:7, ׳פ שָׁ֑קֶר Pro 11:18.
2 wages (as earned by work) Lev 19:13; Pro 10:16 (|| תְּבוּאָה), Eze 29:20; reward (from ׳י) Isa 49:4; Isa 61:8; probably figurative of people won back by ׳י in warfare Isa 40:10; Isa 62:11 (|| שָׂכָר); of punishment, Psa 109:20.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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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