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# מִפְעָל

Biblical Hebrew

**work** — used 2 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

work [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5e4_5b0_5e2_5b8_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִפְעָל²: work, thing made [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5e4_5b0_5e2_5b8_5dc/#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, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 46:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.46.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.46.9/#tree)

לְֽכוּ־חֲ֭זוּ מִפְעֲל֣וֹת יְהוָ֑ה אֲשֶׁר־שָׂ֖ם שַׁמּ֣וֹת בָּאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* come see the.works of.Yahweh who he.has.appointed desolations on the earth

*JPS 1917:* Come, behold the works of the LORD, who hath made desolations in the earth.

[Psalms 66:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.66.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.66.5/#tree)

לְכ֣וּ וּ֭רְאוּ מִפְעֲל֣וֹת אֱלֹהִ֑ים נוֹרָ֥א עֲ֝לִילָ֗ה עַל־בְּנֵ֥י אָדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* come and see the.works of.God awesome deed on the.children of.humankind

*JPS 1917:* Come, and see the works of God; He is terrible in His doing toward the children of men.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5e4_5b0_5e2_5b8_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5e4_5b0_5e2_5b8_5dc/): 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).