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# פִּלְאִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6383

**wonderful** — 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

wonderful [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6383/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פִּלְאִי: adj. wonderful, incomprehensible [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6383/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. wonderful, incomprehensible;—m. פלאי (i.e. פִּלְאִי Kt, Ju 13:18 (name of מַלְאַךְ י׳; \> Qr (א)פֶּ֫לִי); f. פלאיה דַעַת מִמֶּנִּי (i.e. פִּלְאִיָה) ψ 139:6 God’s knowledge; \> Qr פְּלִיאָה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[is too\] wonderful (1); \[is\] incomprehensible (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 139:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.6/#tree)

פְּלִ֣יאָֽה דַ֣עַת מִמֶּ֑נִּי נִ֝שְׂגְּבָ֗ה לֹא־א֥וּכַֽל לָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* \[is.too\].wonderful knowledge for me it.is.set.on.high not I.am.able to it

*JPS 1917:* Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; too high, I cannot attain unto it.

[Judges 13:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.13.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.13.18/#tree)

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לּוֹ֙מַלְאַ֣ךְ יְהוָ֔ה לָ֥מָּה זֶּ֖ה תִּשְׁאַ֣ל לִשְׁמִ֑י וְהוּא־פֶ֛לִאי׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to him the.angel of.Yahweh why? this are.you.asking to name my and it \[is\].incomprehensible

*JPS 1917:* And the angel of the LORD said unto him: 'Wherefore askest thou after my name, seeing it is hidden?'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6383.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6383/): 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).