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# מִפְעָל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4659

**work** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

work [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4659/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִפְעָל²: work, thing made [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4659/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] work, thing made (by י׳);—pl. sf. מִפְעָלָיו Pr 8:22.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: his works (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 8:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.22/#tree)

יְֽהוָ֗ה קָ֭נָנִי רֵאשִׁ֣ית דַּרְכּ֑וֹ קֶ֖דֶם מִפְעָלָ֣יו מֵאָֽז׃

*Word for word:* Yahweh he created.me the.beginning his.way his the.beginning his.works his from then

*JPS 1917:* The LORD made me as the beginning of His way, the first of His works of old.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4659/): 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).