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# פְּעֻלָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6468

**work** — used 14 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/1508/6468/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פְּעֻלָּה: n.f. work, recompence [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6468/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. work, recompence (poet. and late);—cstr. פְּעֻלַּת Lv 19:13 +, sf. פְּעֻלָּתִי Is 49:4, etc.; pl. cstr. פְּעֻלּוֹת ψ 17:4, -לֹת 28:5;— work: pl. deeds of י׳ ψ 28:5. of men, ψ 17:4 (pl.); toil, suffering Je 31:16; good action 2 Ch 15:7, wicked Is 65:7, פ׳ שָׁ֑קֶר Pr 11:18. wages (as earned by work) Lv 19:13 Pr 10:16 (‖ תְּבוּאָה), Ez 29:20; reward (from י׳) Is 49:4; 61:8; prob. fig. of people won back by י׳ in warfare 40:10; 62:11 (‖ שָׂכָר); of punishment, ψ 109:20.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: wage\[s\] (7); \[the\] wage\[s\] (2); work (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 10:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.16/#tree)

פְּעֻלַּ֣ת צַדִּ֣יק לְחַיִּ֑ים תְּבוּאַ֖ת רָשָׁ֣ע לְחַטָּֽאת׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].wage\[s\] of.\[the\].righteous \[is\].(to) life \[the\].yield of.\[the\].wicked \[is\].(to) sin

*JPS 1917:* The wages of the righteous is life; the increase of the wicked is sin.

[Proverbs 11:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.18/#tree)

רָשָׁ֗ע עֹשֶׂ֥ה פְעֻלַּת־שָׁ֑קֶר וְזֹרֵ֥עַ צְ֝דָקָ֗ה שֶׂ֣כֶר אֱמֶֽת׃

*Word for word:* a.wicked.\[person\] \[is\].making wage\[s\] of.falsehood and \[one.who\].sows righteousness wage\[s\] of.truth

*JPS 1917:* The wicked earneth deceitful wages; but he that soweth righteousness hath a sure reward.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6468.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6468/): 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).