Wonder
מִפְלָאָהStrong’s H4652miphlaah (miph-la-ah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Miphlaah is the Hebrew word usually translated “wondrous works of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?”
Meaning
- Wondrous work
How it's translated
- wondrous works of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מִפְלָאָה miphlaah · wonder
wondrous work
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.