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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

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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 Box Lev 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:15 - If any one act unfaithfully and sin through inadvertence in the holy things of Jehovah, then he shall bring his trespass-offering to Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the small cattle, according to thy valuation by shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass-offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:2 - If any one sin and act unfaithfully against Jehovah, and lie to his neighbour as to an entrusted thing or a deposit or that in which he hath robbed or wronged his neighbour,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:40 - And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, through their unfaithfulness wherein they were unfaithful to me, and also that they have walked contrary unto me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:6 - Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any of all the sins of man to work unfaithfulness against Jehovah, and that soul is guilty,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:12 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go astray, and commit unfaithfulness against him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she have been defiled, and have committed unfaithfulness against her husband, that the water that bringeth the curse shall enter into her, for bitterness, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall shrink; and the woman shall become a curse among her people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:16 - Lo, these, through the counsel of Balaam, caused the children of Israel to commit sin against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague on the assembly of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:1 - But the children of Israel committed unfaithfulness in that which had been brought under the curse: Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing; and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:16 - Thus saith the whole assembly of Jehovah: What wickedness is this which ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following Jehovah, in that ye have built yourselves an altar, rebelling this day against Jehovah?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:20 - Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing? and wrath fell on all the assembly of Israel, and he perished not alone in his iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:22 - The God of gods, Jehovah, the God of gods, Jehovah, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know it; if it is in rebellion, or if in trespass against Jehovah, -- save us not this day!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:31 - And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that Jehovah is among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against Jehovah: now have ye delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:1 - And all Israel were registered by genealogy; and behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was carried away to Babylon because of their transgression.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 10:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:13 - And Saul died for his unfaithfulness which he committed against Jehovah, because of the word of Jehovah which he kept not, and also for having inquired of the spirit of Python, asking counsel of it;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:19 - For Jehovah humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had made Judah lawless, and transgressed much against Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:19 - and all the vessels that king Ahaz in his reign cast away in his transgression have we prepared and hallowed, and behold, they are before the altar of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:19 - And his prayer, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin and his unfaithfulness, and the places in which he built high places, and set up Asherahs and graven images, before he was humbled, behold, they are written among the words of Hozai.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:14 - All the chiefs of the priests also, and the people, increased their transgressions, according to all the abominations of the nations; and they defiled the house of Jehovah which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:2 - for they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, and have mingled the holy seed with the peoples of the lands; and the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this unfaithfulness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:4 - Then were assembled to me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the unfaithfulness of those that had been carried away; and I sat overwhelmed until the evening oblation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:6 - And Ezra arose from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib; and when he came thither, he ate no bread and drank no water; for he mourned because of the unfaithfulness of them that had been carried away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:34 - How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:13 - Son of man, when a land sinneth against me by working unfaithfulness, and I stretch out my hand upon it, and break the staff of the bread thereof, and send famine upon it, and cut off man and beast from it;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:8 - And I will make the land a desolation, because they have wrought unfaithfulness, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:20 - And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his unfaithfulness in which he hath been unfaithful against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:24 - And when the righteous turneth from his righteousness and practiseth what is wrong, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked doeth, shall he live? None of his righteous acts which he hath done shall be remembered: in his unfaithfulness which he hath wrought, and in his sin which he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:27 - Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In this moreover have your fathers blasphemed me, in that they have wrought unfaithfulness against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 39:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:26 - and they shall bear their confusion, and all their unfaithfulness in which they have acted unfaithfully against me, when they shall dwell safely in their land, and none shall make them afraid;

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:7 - Thine, O Lord, is the righteousness, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their unfaithfulness in which they have been unfaithful against thee.
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