Be unfaithful
מָעַלStrong’s H4603maal (ma-al)
Appears in 35 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maal is the Hebrew word usually translated “acted unfaithfully”, “have acted unfaithfully” and “act unfaithfully”. It appears in 35 verses of the Old Testament.
“O LORD, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, 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, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.”
Meaning
- To act unfaithfully, act treacherously, transgress, commit a trespass(Qal) to act unfaithfully or treacherously
How it's translated
- they acted unfaithfully 5
- you have acted unfaithfully 4
- to act unfaithfully 3
- it will act unfaithfully 2
- by acting unfaithfully 2
- and they acted unfaithfully 2
- they had acted unfaithfully 2
- he has acted unfaithfully 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 8
- Ezekiel 7
- Joshua 4
- Leviticus 3
- Numbers 3
- 1 Chronicles 3
11 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 5:15If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:
- Leviticus 6:2If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
- Leviticus 26:40If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
- Numbers 5:6Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty;
- Numbers 5:12Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
- Numbers 5:27And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
Hebrew dictionary
מָעַל maal · be unfaithful
1) to act unfaithfully, act treacherously, transgress, commit a trespass 1a) (Qal) to act unfaithfully or treacherously 1a1) against man 1a2) against God 1a3) against devoted thing 1a4) against husband
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.