Wonder
מוֹפֵתStrong’s H4159mophet (mo-phet)
Appears in 35 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mophet is the Hebrew word usually translated “wonders”, “sign” and “wonders my”. It appears in 35 verses of the Old Testament.
“Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.”
Meaning
- Wonder, sign, miracle, portentwonder (as a special display of God's power) · sign, token (of future event)
How it's translated
- and wonders 5
- a sign 4
- and by wonders 3
- and the wonders 3
- the wonders 2
- wonders my 2
- a wonder 2
- the sign 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 9
- Exodus 5
- Psalms 5
- Ezekiel 4
- 1 Kings 2
- 2 Chronicles 2
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 4:21And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
- Exodus 7:3And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 7:9When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent.
- Exodus 11:9And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 11:10And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.
- Deuteronomy 4:34Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Hebrew dictionary
מוֹפֵת mophet · wonder
1) wonder, sign, miracle, portent 1a) wonder (as a special display of God's power) 1b) sign, token (of future event)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wonder” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WONDER, noun
[G., Gr., to show; and hence a sight; a panic.]
- That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind, of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not well understood; something that arrests the attention by its novelty, grandeur or inexplicableness. wonder expresses less than astonishment, and much less than amazement.“They were filled with wonder and amazement” Acts 3:10
- Cause of wonder; that which excites surprise; a strange thing; a prodigy.
- Any thing mentioned with surprise.
- A miracle. Exodus 3:20
All definitions and other forms of “wonder”
WONDER, verb intransitive
To be affected by surprise or admiration.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.