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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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:15 - “If anyone commits a breach of faith and sins unintentionally in any of the holy things of the LORD, he shall bring to the LORD as his compensation, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued[fn] in silver shekels,[fn] according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:2 - “If anyone 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

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:40 - “But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:6 - “Speak to the people of Israel, When a man or woman commits any of the sins that people commit by breaking faith with the LORD, and that person realizes his guilt,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:12 - “Speak to the people of Israel, If any man’s wife goes astray and breaks faith with him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - And when he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has broken faith with her husband, the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her womb shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away, 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 - Behold, these, on Balaam’s advice, caused the people of Israel to act treacherously against the LORD in the incident of Peor, and so the plague came among the congregation of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:1

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:16 - “Thus says the whole congregation of the LORD, ‘What is this breach of faith that 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?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:20

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.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:22

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 against the LORD, do not spare us today

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:31 - And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the people of Manasseh, “Today we know that the LORD is in our midst, because you have not committed this breach of faith against the LORD. Now you have delivered the people of Israel from the hand of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:1 - So all Israel was recorded in genealogies, and these are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was taken into exile in Babylon because of their breach of faith.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 10:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:13 - So Saul died for his breach of faith. He broke faith with the LORD in that he did not keep the command of the LORD, and also consulted a medium, seeking guidance.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:19 - For the LORD humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had made Judah act sinfully[fn] and had been very unfaithful to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:19 - All the utensils that King Ahaz discarded in his reign when he was faithless, we have made ready and consecrated, and behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:19 - And his prayer, and how God was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Asherim and the images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:14 - All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the LORD that he had made holy in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:2

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[fn] has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:4

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 around me while I sat appalled until the evening sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:6 - Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib, where he spent the night,[fn] neither eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:34 - How then will you comfort me with empty nothings?
There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:13

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 supply[fn] of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:8 - And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted faithlessly, declares the Lord GOD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:20

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 treachery he has committed against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:24 - But when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice and does the same abominations that the wicked person does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, for them he shall die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:27

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 also your fathers blasphemed me, by dealing treacherously with me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 39:26

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,

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:7 - To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of the treachery that they have committed against you.
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