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Lexicon :: Strong's H4159 - môp̄ēṯ

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מוֹפֵת
Transliteration
môp̄ēṯ
Pronunciation
mo-faith'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From יָפָה (H3302) in the sense of conspicuousness
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 152a

Strong’s Definitions

מוֹפֵת môwphêth, mo-faith'; or מֹפֵת môphêth; from H3302 in the sense of conspicuousness; a miracle; by implication, a token or omen:—miracle, sign, wonder(-ed at).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 36x

The KJV translates Strong's H4159 in the following manner: wonder (25x), sign (8x), miracle (2x), wondered at (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 36x
The KJV translates Strong's H4159 in the following manner: wonder (25x), sign (8x), miracle (2x), wondered at (1x).

  1. wonder, sign, miracle, portent

    1. wonder (as a special display of God's power)

    2. sign, token (of future event)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מוֹפֵת môwphêth, mo-faith'; or מֹפֵת môphêth; from H3302 in the sense of conspicuousness; a miracle; by implication, a token or omen:—miracle, sign, wonder(-ed at).
STRONGS H4159: Abbreviations
† מוֺפֵת noun masculineDeut 29:2 wonder, sign, portent (= מאֹפֵת) — מוֺפֵת Exodus 7:9 + 14 times; מוֺפֶתְכֶם Ezekiel 12:11; מוֺפְתִים Deuteronomy 4:34 + 4 times; מֹפְתִים Deuteronomy 6:22 + 9 times; מוֺפְתַי Exodus 7:3; Exodus 11:9; מוֺפְתָיו Psalm 78:43; מֹפְתָיו 1 Chronicles 16:12; Psalm 105:5 —
1. wonder, as special display of God's power Exodus 7:3; Exodus 11:9; Psalm 105:5; 1 Chronicles 16:12; Joel 3:3; by Moses and Aaron Exodus 4:21; Exodus 11:10; compare Exodus 7:9 (in mouth of Pharaoh), by false prophets Deuteronomy 13:2; Deuteronomy 13:3 (|| אות); usually || אות Deuteronomy 4:34; Deuteronomy 6:22; Deuteronomy 7:19; Deuteronomy 26:8; Deuteronomy 29:2; Deuteronomy 34:11; Psalm 78:43; Psalm 105:27; Psalm 135:9; Jeremiah 32:20, 21; Nehemiah 9:10; applied to effect of Yahweh's curse Deuteronomy 28:46 (|| אות); to one protected by י׳ Psalm 71:7.
2. sign or token of future event (compare אוֺת) 1 Kings 13:3 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 13:5; 2 Chronicles 32:24, 31; symbolic act Isaiah 20:3 (|| אות); as such the term is applied to persons Isaiah 8:18 (|| אות) Ezekiel 12:6, 11; Ezekiel 24:24, 27; compareאַנְשֵׁי מ׳ Zechariah 3:8 men who serve as a symbol or sign. — Vb. used, of divine act, is נתן Exodus 7:9 etc.,שׂים Jeremiah 32:20; שׂים also of entrusting to human power Exodus 4:21, compare דִּבֶּר 1 Kings 13:3; of human agency עשׂה Exodus 4:21; Exodus 11:10, נתן 1 Kings 13:3, 5.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

4:21; 4:21; 4:21; 7:3; 7:3; 7:9; 7:9; 7:9; 11:9; 11:9; 11:10; 11:10

Deuteronomy

4:34; 4:34; 6:22; 6:22; 7:19; 13:2; 13:3; 26:8; 28:46; 29:2; 29:2; 34:11

1 Kings

13:3; 13:3; 13:3; 13:5; 13:5

1 Chronicles

16:12; 16:12

2 Chronicles

32:24; 32:31

Nehemiah

9:10

Psalms

71:7; 78:43; 78:43; 105:5; 105:5; 105:27; 135:9

Isaiah

8:18; 20:3

Jeremiah

32:20; 32:20; 32:21

Ezekiel

12:6; 12:11; 12:11; 24:24; 24:27

Joel

3:3

Zechariah

3:8

H4159

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4159 matches the Hebrew מוֹפֵת (môp̄ēṯ),
which occurs 36 times in 35 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:21 - And the LORD said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:3 - But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:9 - “When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Prove yourselves by working a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:9 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:10 - Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go out of his land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:34 - Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:22 - And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:19 - the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out. So will the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:1 - “If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:2 - and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:8 - And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror,[fn] with signs and wonders.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:46

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:46 - They shall be a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:3 - the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:11 - none like him for all the signs and the wonders that the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:3 - And he gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign that the LORD has spoken: ‘Behold, the altar shall be torn down, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:5 - The altar also was torn down, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:12 - Remember the wondrous works that he has done,
his miracles and the judgments he uttered,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:24 - In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death, and he prayed to the LORD, and he answered him and gave him a sign.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:31 - And so in the matter of the envoys of the princes of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:10 - and performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for you knew that they acted arrogantly against our fathers. And you made a name for yourself, as it is to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 71:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:7 - I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:43

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:43 - when he performed his signs in Egypt
and his marvels in the fields of Zoan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:5 - Remember the wondrous works that he has done,
his miracles, and the judgments he uttered,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:27 - They performed his signs among them
and miracles in the land of Ham.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 135:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:9 - who in your midst, O Egypt,
sent signs and wonders
against Pharaoh and all his servants;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:18 - Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:3 - Then the LORD said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush,[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:20 - You have shown signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and to this day in Israel and among all mankind, and have made a name for yourself, as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:21 - You brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and outstretched arm, and with great terror.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:6 - In their sight you shall lift the baggage upon your shoulder and carry it out at dusk. You shall cover your face that you may not see the land, for I have made you a sign for the house of Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:11 - Say, ‘I am a sign for you: as I have done, so shall it be done to them. They shall go into exile, into captivity.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 24:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:24 - Thus shall Ezekiel be to you a sign; according to all that he has done you shall do. When this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 24:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:27 - On that day your mouth will be opened to the fugitive, and you shall speak and be no longer mute. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:30 - “And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:8 - Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who sit before you, for they are men who are a sign: behold, I will bring my servant the Branch.
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