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# מַעַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4604

**unfaithful** — used 29 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

unfaithful [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4604/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַ֫עַל: n.m. unfaithful, treacherous act [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4604/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ezr 9:2 unfaithful, treacherous act (NH מְעִילָה);—מ׳ Lv 5:15 + 16 times; מָ֑עַל Nu 5:12 + 2 times; sf. מַעֲלוֹ Ez 17:20 + 4 times; מַעֲלָם Ez 39:26 + 3 times;— ag. man: נשׁאר מעל Jb 21:34 faithlessness remains (cf. Nu 5:12, 27 Pr 16:10 under מָעַל). elsewhere ag. God, c. בְּ, Jos 22:22 (P); without בְּ, 1 Ch 9:1 2 Ch 29:19; 33:19 Ezr 9:2, 4; 10:6.—מַעַל elsewhere only c. מָעַל q.v. (1; all cited).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: unfaithfulness (27); the unfaithfulness (2).

## In the verses

[Job 21:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.34/#tree)

וְ֭אֵיךְ תְּנַחֲמ֣וּנִי הָ֑בֶל וּ֝תְשֽׁוּבֹתֵיכֶ֗ם נִשְׁאַר־מָֽעַל׃ס

*Word for word:* and how? will you.comfort.me vanity and answers your it.remains unfaithfulness

*JPS 1917:* How then comfort ye me in vain? And as for your answers, there remaineth only faithlessness?

[Ezekiel 15:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.15.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.15.8/#tree)

וְנָתַתִּ֥י אֶת־הָאָ֖רֶץ שְׁמָמָ֑ה יַ֚עַן מָ֣עֲלוּ מַ֔עַל נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and I.will.make (et) the land a.desolation because they.have.acted.unfaithfully unfaithfulness the.utterance Lord of.\[the\] Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted treacherously, saith the Lord GOD.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4604.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4604/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).