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# פֶּלֶא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6382

**wonder** — used 13 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

wonder [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6382/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֶּלֶא: n.m. wonder [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6382/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. wonder (NH id.; as unusual, extraordinary);—פ׳ Ex 15:11 + 6 times; sf. פִּלְאֲךָ ψ 89:6; פִּלְאֶ֑ךָ 77:12; 88:13; pl. פְּלָאִים La 1:9; fpl. פְּלָאוֹת ψ 119:129 Dn 12:6;— wonder: extraordinary, hard to be understood, God’s dealings with His people Is 29:14; the testimonies of the Law ψ 119:129; פֶּלֶא יוֹעֵץ Is 9:5 marvel of a counsellor (Baer פֵּלֶא), wonderful counsellor (of Mess. king); pl. as adv. acc. וַתֵּרֶד פ׳ La 1:9 she (Jerus.) hath come down marvellously. wonder: of God’s acts of judgment and redemption ψ 77:12; 88:13; 89:6; עשׂה פ׳ Ex 15:11; Is 25:1 ψ 77:15; 78:12; 88:11; of extraord. trials קֵץ הפ׳ Dn 12:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 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: wonder\[s\] (6); (of) wonder\[s\] (2); a wonder (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 77:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.77.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.77.12/#tree)

אֶזְכּ֥וֹר מַֽעַלְלֵי־יָ֑הּ כִּֽי־אֶזְכְּרָ֖ה מִקֶּ֣דֶם פִּלְאֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* I.will.remember the.deeds of.Yahweh (dm) I.will.remember from antiquity wonder\[s\] your

*JPS 1917:* I will make mention of the deeds of the LORD; yea, I will remember Thy wonders of old.

[Psalms 119:129](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.129/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.129/#tree)

פְּלָא֥וֹת עֵדְוֺתֶ֑יךָ עַל־כֵּ֝֗ן נְצָרָ֥תַם נַפְשִֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* \[are\].wonders testimonies your therefore it observes.them self my

*JPS 1917:* Thy testimonies are wonderful; therefore doth my soul keep them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6382.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6382/): 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).