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title: פָּעַל — do · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פָּעַל (6466), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 57 times: do. BDB 1906: vb. do, make. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פָּעַל

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«פָּעַל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **do** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 57 times · **Key:** 6466 · **BDB:** פָּעַל

### Glosses

\[those.who\].do (19); of.\[those.who\].do (4); you.have.done (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

do [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6466/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. do, make [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6466/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. do, make (poet. for עָשָׂה) (NH פּוֹעֵל workman, cf. J Aram.; Ph. פעל = BH (often); Arabic فَعَلَ id.; Old Aramaic פעל; Syriac in der. spec. and deriv.);— Pf. 3 ms. Dt 32:27 +, פָ֫עַל אֵל Nu 23:23, 2 ms. פָּעַלְתָּ Ex 15:17 +, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יִפְעַל Jb 22:17 +; 2 ms. תִּפְעָל־ 35:6, etc.; Inf. cstr. לְפָעֳלָם Jb 37:12 (v. infr.); Pt. act. פֹּעֵל ψ 15:2 +, pl. cstr. פֹּעֲלֵי 5:6 +, etc.;— do: of God, c. acc. (abstr.) Nu 23:23; Dt 32:27; Jb 33:29, יְשׁוּעוֹת ψ 74:12; + ל pers. ψ 31:20; 68:29; Is 26:12 Jb 22:17; c. acc. cogn. פֹּעַלִ ψ 44:2 Hb 1:5; acc. om. Is 43:13, cf. 41:4. of men, c. acc. ψ 11:3 Jb 11:8, + ל pers. (God) 7:20, + ב pers. (God) 35:6; especially of doing evil, שָׁ֑קֶר Ho 7:1, עָוֶל Jb 34:32, עַוְלָה 36:23 ψ 58:3; 119:3, אָוֶן Pr 30:20, especially פֹּעֲלֵי אָוֶן Ho 6:8; Is 31:2 Jb 31:3; 34:8, 22 ψ 5:6 + 15 times ψ, Pr 10:29; 21:15, פֹּעֲלֵי רָע Mi 2:1; rarely of doing right, c. acc. מִשְׁפָּטוֹ Zp 2:3, צֶדֶק ψ 15:2. of clouds, c. acc. Jb 37:12 (disregarding—֑). make: of God, c. acc. concr. object + ל end Pr 16:4, ל of 2nd obj. ψ 7:14; פֹּעֲלִי Jb 36:3 my Maker. of man, c. acc. concr. Is 44:12, 15; acc. om. 44:12 ψ 7:16.—Is 1:31 v. פֹּעַל.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 41 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פָּעַל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6466/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 94:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.94.4/)

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יַבִּ֣יעוּ יְדַבְּר֣וּ עָתָ֑ק יִֽ֝תְאַמְּר֗וּ כָּל־פֹּ֥עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן׃

*Word for word:* they.pour.forth they.speak arrogant they.boast all \[those.who\].do (of).wickedness

*JPS 1917:* They gush out, they speak arrogancy; all the workers of iniquity bear themselves loftily.

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[Hosea 6:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.6.8/)

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גִּלְעָ֕ד קִרְיַ֖ת פֹּ֣עֲלֵי אָ֑וֶן עֲקֻבָּ֖ה מִדָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* Gilead \[is\].a.town of.\[those.who\].do (of).wickedness tracked from blood

*JPS 1917:* Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, it is covered with footprints of blood.

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