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Lexicon :: Strong's H4604 - maʿal

Aa
מַעַל
Transliteration
maʿal
Pronunciation
mah'-al
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1230a

Strong’s Definitions

מַעַל maʻal, mah'-al; from H4603; treachery, i.e. sin:—falsehood, grievously, sore, transgression, trespass, × very.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x

The KJV translates Strong's H4604 in the following manner: trespass (17x), transgression (6x), trespassed (2x), falsehood (1x), grievously (1x), sore (1x), very (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x
The KJV translates Strong's H4604 in the following manner: trespass (17x), transgression (6x), trespassed (2x), falsehood (1x), grievously (1x), sore (1x), very (1x).

  1. unfaithful or treacherous act, trespass

    1. against man

    2. against God

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מַעַל maʻal, mah'-al; from H4603; treachery, i.e. sin:—falsehood, grievously, sore, transgression, trespass, × very.
STRONGS H4604: Abbreviations
† I. מַ֫עַל noun masculineEzra 9:2 unfaithful, treacherous act (Late Hebrew מְעִילָה); — מ׳ Leviticus 5:15 + 16 times; מָ֑עַל Numbers 5:12 + 2 times; suffix מַעֲלוֺ Ezekiel 17:20 + 4 times; מַעֲלָם Ezekiel 39:26 + 3 times; —
1. against man: נשׁאר מעל Job 21:34 faithlessness remains (compare Numbers 5:12, 27; Proverbs 16:10 under מָעַל).
2. elsewhere against God, with בְּ, Joshua 22:22 (P); without בְּ, 1 Chronicles 9:1; 2 Chronicles 29:19; 33:19; Ezra 9:2, 4; Ezra 10:6. — מַעַל elsewhere only with מָעַל which see (1; all cited).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Leviticus

5:15

Numbers

5:12; 5:12; 5:27

Joshua

22:22

1 Chronicles

9:1

2 Chronicles

29:19; 33:19

Ezra

9:2; 9:2; 9:4; 10:6

Job

21:34

Proverbs

16:10

Ezekiel

17:20; 39:26

H4604

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4604 matches the Hebrew מַעַל (maʿal),
which occurs 29 times in 29 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 BoxNum 31:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:16 - It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.

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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 22:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:22 - God, even God the Lord, God, even God the Lord, he sees, and Israel will see--if it is in pride or in sin against the Lord,

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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 9:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:1 - So all Israel was listed by their families; and, truly, they are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was taken away as prisoners to Babylon because of their sin.

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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 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 29:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:19 - And all the vessels which were turned out by King Ahaz in his sin while he was king, we have put in order and made holy, and now they are in their places before the altar of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:19 - And the prayer which he made to God, and how God gave him an answer, and all his sin and his wrongdoing, and the places where he made high places and put up pillars of wood and images, before he put away his pride, are recorded in the history of the seers.

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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 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:2 - For they have taken their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the peoples of the lands; and in fact the captains and rulers have been the first to do this evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:4 - Then everyone who went in fear of the words of the God of Israel, because of the sin of those who had come back, came together to me; and I kept where I was, overcome with grief, till the evening offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:6 - Then Ezra got up from before the house of God and went into the room of Jehohanan, the son of Eliashib; but when he came there, he took no food or drink, for he was sorrowing for the sin of those who had come back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:34 - Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?

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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 39:26

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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