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Lexicon :: Strong's H4604 - maʿal

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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.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:15 - "If any one commits a breach of faith and sins unwittingly in any of the holy things of the LORD, he shall bring, as his guilt offering to the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued by you in shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; it is a guilt offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:2 - "If any one sins and commits a breach of faith against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:40 - "But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery which they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:6 - "Say to the people of Israel, When a man or woman commits any of the sins that men commit by breaking faith with the LORD, and that person is guilty,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:12 - "Say to the people of Israel, If any man's wife goes astray and acts unfaithfully against him,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - And when he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has acted unfaithfully against her husband, the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her body shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away, and the woman shall become an execration among her people.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:16 - Behold, these caused the people of Israel, by the counsel of Balaam, to act treacherously against the LORD in the matter of Pe'or, and so the plague came among the congregation of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:1 - But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things; for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things; and the anger of the LORD burned against the people of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:16 - "Thus says the whole congregation of the LORD, 'What is this treachery which you have committed against the God of Israel in turning away this day from following the LORD, by building yourselves an altar this day in rebellion against the LORD?
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:20 - Did not Achan the son of Zerah break faith in the matter of the devoted things, and wrath fell upon all the congregation of Israel? And he did not perish alone for his iniquity.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:22 - "The Mighty One, God, the LORD! The Mighty One, God, the LORD! He knows; and let Israel itself know! If it was in rebellion or in breach of faith toward the LORD, spare us not today
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:31 - And Phin'ehas the son of Elea'zar the priest said to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the Manas'sites, "Today we know that the LORD is in the midst of us, because you have not committed this treachery against the LORD; now you have saved the people of Israel from the hand of the LORD."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:1 - So all Israel was enrolled by genealogies; and these are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was taken into exile in Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:13 - So Saul died for his unfaithfulness; he was unfaithful to the LORD in that he did not keep the command of the LORD, and also consulted a medium, seeking guidance,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:19 - For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had dealt wantonly in Judah and had been faithless to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:19 - All the utensils which King Ahaz discarded in his reign when he was faithless, we have made ready and sanctified; and behold, they are before the altar of the LORD."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:19 - And his prayer, and how God received his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Ashe'rim and the images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:14 - All the leading priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:2 - For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons; so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost."
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:4 - Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered round me while I sat appalled until the evening sacrifice.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:6 - Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God, and went to the chamber of Jehoha'nan the son of Eli'ashib, where he spent the night, neither eating bread nor drinking water; for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:34 - How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood."
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:13 - "Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it, and break its staff of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:8 - And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted faithlessly, says the Lord GOD."
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:20 - I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there for the treason he has committed against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:24 - But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity and does the same abominable things that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds which he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, he shall die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:27 - "Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: In this again your fathers blasphemed me, by dealing treacherously with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:26 - They shall forget their shame, and all the treachery they have practiced against me, when they dwell securely in their land with none to make them afraid,
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:7 - To thee, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those that are near and those that are far away, in all the lands to which thou hast driven them, because of the treachery which they have committed against thee.
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