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Lexicon :: Strong's H4603 - māʿal

Aa
מָעַל
Transliteration
māʿal
Pronunciation
maw-al'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1230

Strong’s Definitions

מָעַל mâʻal, maw-al'; a primitive root; properly, to cover up; used only figuratively, to act covertly, i.e. treacherously:—transgress, (commit, do a) trespass(-ing).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 35x

The KJV translates Strong's H4603 in the following manner: trespass (13x), commit (11x), transgress (10x), done (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 35x
The KJV translates Strong's H4603 in the following manner: trespass (13x), commit (11x), transgress (10x), done (1x).

  1. to act unfaithfully, act treacherously, transgress, commit a trespass

    1. (Qal) to act unfaithfully or treacherously

      1. against man

      2. against God

      3. against devoted thing

      4. against husband

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מָעַל mâʻal, maw-al'; a primitive root; properly, to cover up; used only figuratively, to act covertly, i.e. treacherously:—transgress, (commit, do a) trespass(-ing).
STRONGS H4603: Abbreviations
† מָעַל verb act unfaithfully, treacherously, a priestly word (P Ezra, Chronicles), chiefly late (Late Hebrew id., act unfaithfully; Arabic bdb059101 whisper, backbite, bdb059102 perfidy, fraud); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular מָעַל Joshua 22:20 + 4 times; 3rd person feminine singular מָֽעֲלָה Leviticus 5:21; Numbers 5:12 + 13 times Perfect; Imperfect יִמְעַל Proverbs 16:10; 2 Chronicles 26:16; 3rd person feminine singular תִּמְעֹל Leviticus 5:15; Numbers 5:27; 3rd person masculine plural יִמְעֲלוּ Joshua 7:1, וַיִּמְעֲלוּ 1 Chronicles 5:25; 2nd person masculine plural תִּמְעָ֑לוּ Nehemiah 1:8; Infinitive construct לִמְעֹל, so read for HCT למסר Numbers 31:16 Thes Di; — act unfaithfully, treacherously, usually
1. מָעַל מַ֫עַל :
a. absolute בַּחֵרֶם in the matter of the devoted thing (the sin of Achan) Joshua 7:1 (JE), Joshua 22:20 (P), compare Leviticus 5:15 (P), 2 Chronicles 36:14; Ezekiel 14:13; Ezekiel 15:8; Ezekiel 18:24.
b. wife against (בְּ) husband Numbers 5:12, 27 (P; marital infidelity).
c. elsewhere against (בְּ) God, Leviticus 26:40 (H), Leviticus 5:21; Numbers 5:6; Numbers 31:16 (?) Joshua 22:16, 31 (all P), 1 Chronicles 10:13; 1 Chronicles 28:19; Ezekiel 17:20; Ezekiel 20:27; Ezekiel 39:26; Daniel 9:7.
2. usage without מַעַל (only late):
a. במשׁפט לא ימעל פיו Proverbs 16:10 let not his (the king's) mouth act treacherously against justice (RV in judgment).
b. elsewhere against God, with בְּ, Deuteronomy 32:51 (P), 1 Chronicles 5:25; 1 Chronicles 12:2; 1 Chronicles 26:22; 1 Chronicles 30:7; Ezra 10:2; Nehemiah 13:27; Ezekiel 39:23; without בְּ, 2 Chronicles 26:18; 29:6; Ezra 10:10; Nehemiah 1:8; בַּחֵרֶם 1 Chronicles 2:7.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Leviticus

5:15; 5:15; 26:40

Numbers

5:6; 5:12; 5:12; 5:27; 5:27; 31:16; 31:16

Deuteronomy

32:51

Joshua

7:1; 7:1; 22:16; 22:20; 22:20; 22:31

1 Chronicles

2:7; 5:25; 5:25; 10:13; 12:2; 26:22; 28:19

2 Chronicles

26:16; 26:18; 29:6; 36:14

Ezra

10:2; 10:10

Nehemiah

1:8; 1:8; 13:27

Proverbs

16:10; 16:10

Ezekiel

14:13; 15:8; 17:20; 18:24; 20:27; 39:23; 39:26

Daniel

9:7

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Strong's Number H4603 matches the Hebrew מָעַל (māʿal),
which occurs 35 times in 35 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:15 - If anyone is untrue, sinning in error in connection with the holy things of the Lord, let him take his offering to the Lord, a male sheep from the flock, without any mark, of the value fixed by you in silver by shekels, by the scale of the holy place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:2 - If anyone does wrong, and is untrue to the Lord, acting falsely to his neighbour in connection with something put in his care, or something given for a debt, or has taken away anything by force, or has been cruel to his neighbour,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:40 - And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:6 - Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman does any of the sins of men, going against the word of the Lord, and is in the wrong;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:12 - Say to the children of Israel, If any man's wife does wrong, sinning against him

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - And it will be that if the woman has become unclean, sinning against her husband, when she has taken the bitter water it will go into her body, causing disease of the stomach and wasting of the legs, and she will be a curse among her people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:51

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:51 - Because of your sin against me before the children of Israel at the waters of Meribath Kadesh in the waste land of Zin; because you did not keep my name holy among the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:1 - But the children of Israel did wrong about the cursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the family of Judah, took of the cursed thing, moving the Lord to wrath against the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:16 - This is what all the meeting of the people of the Lord has said, What is this wrong which you have done against the God of Israel, turning back this day from the Lord and building an altar for yourselves, and being false to the Lord?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:20 - Did not Achan, the son of Zerah, do wrong about the cursed thing, causing wrath to come on all the people of Israel? And not on him only came the punishment of death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:31 - And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, said to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh, Now we are certain that the Lord is among us, because you have not done this wrong against the Lord: and you have kept us from falling into the hands of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:7 - And the sons of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel, who did wrong about the cursed thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:25 - And they did evil against the God of their fathers, worshipping the gods of the people of the land, whom God had put to destruction before them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:13 - So death came to Saul because of the sin which he did against the Lord, that is, because of the word of the Lord which he kept not; and because he went for directions to one who had an evil spirit,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:2 - Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem, because of their sin against the Lord,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:16 - But when he had become strong, his heart was lifted up in pride, causing his destruction; and he did evil against the Lord his God; for he went into the Temple of the Lord for the purpose of burning perfumes on the altar of perfumes.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:18 - And they made protests to Uzziah the king, and said to him, The burning of perfumes, Uzziah, is not your business but that of the priests, the sons of Aaron, who have been made holy for this work: go out of the holy place, for you have done wrong, and it will not be to your honour before God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:19 - For the Lord made Judah low, because of Ahaz, king of Israel; for he had given up all self-control in Judah, sinning greatly against the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:22 - And in the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz did even more evil against the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:6 - For our fathers have done evil, sinning in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have given him up, turning away their faces from the house of the Lord, and turning their backs on him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:7 - Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:14 - And more than this, all the great men of Judah and the priests and the people made their sin great, turning to all the disgusting ways of the nations; and they made unclean the house of the Lord which he had made holy in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:2 - And Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answering, said to Ezra, We have done evil against our God, and have taken as our wives strange women of the peoples of the land: but still there is hope for Israel in this question.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:10 - And Ezra the priest got to his feet and said to them, You have done wrong and taken strange women for your wives, so increasing the sin of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:8 - Keep in mind, O Lord, the order you gave your servant Moses, saying, If you do wrong I will send you wandering among the peoples:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:27 - Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:10 - Decision is in the lips of the king: his mouth will not go wrong in judging.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:13 - Son of man, when a land, sinning against me, does wrong, and my hand is stretched out against it, and the support of its bread is broken, and I make it short of food, cutting off man and beast from it:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:8 - And I will make the land a waste because they have done evil, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:20 - My net will be stretched out over him, and he will be taken in my cords, and I will send him to Babylon, and there I will be his judge for the wrong which he has done against me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:24 - But when the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, like all the disgusting things which the evil man does, will he have life? Not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory: in the wrong which he has done and in his sin death will overtake him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:27 - For this cause, son of man, say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: In this your fathers have further put shame on my name by doing wrong against me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:23 - And it will be clear to the nations that the children of Israel were taken away prisoners for their evil-doing; because they did wrong against me, and my face was covered from them: so I gave them up into the hands of their attackers, and they all came to their end by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:26 - And they will be conscious of their shame and of all the wrong which they have done against me, when they are living in their land with no sense of danger and with no one to be a cause of fear to them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:7 - O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you.
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