To work
פָּעַלStrong’s H6466paal (pa-al)
Appears in 56 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Paal is the Hebrew word usually translated “do”, “have done” and “has he done”. It appears in 56 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which thy hands have established.”
Meaning
- To do, make(Qal)
How it's translated
- do 17
- you have done 3
- has he done 2
- to do 2
- doers of 2
- i have done 2
- they do 2
- he makes 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 26
- Job 12
- Isaiah 6
- Proverbs 4
- Hosea 2
- Exodus 1
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 23:23Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
- Deuteronomy 32:27Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
- Job 7:20I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
- Job 11:8It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
- Job 22:17Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
- Job 31:3Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
All 56 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
פָּעַל paal · to work
1) to do, make 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to do 1a2) to make
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “work” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WORK, verb intransitive
[G., Gr.]
- In a general sense, to move, or to move one way and the other; to perform; as in popular language it is said, a mill or machine works well.
- To labor; to be occupied in performing manual labor, whether severe or moderate.
- To be in action or motion; as the working of the heart.
- To act; to carry on operations.
All definitions and other forms of “work”
- To operate; to carry on business; to be customarily engaged or employed in.“They that work in fine flax” Isaiah 19:9
- To ferment; as, unfermented liquors work violently in hot weather.
- To operate; to produce effects by action or influence.“All things work together for good to them that love God” Romans 8:28
- To obtain by diligence. [Little used.]
- To act or operate on the stomach and bowels; as a cathartic.
- To labor; to strain; to move heavily; as, a ship works in a tempest.
- To be tossed or agitated.
- To enter by working; as, to work into the earth.
WORK, verb transitive
- To move; to stir and mix; as, to work mortar.
- To form by labor; to mold, shape or manufacture; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into an utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth.
- To bring into any state by action.
- To influence by acting upon; to manage; to lead.
- To make by action, labor or violence.
- To produce by action, labor or exertion.
- To embroider; as, to work muslin.
- To direct the movements of, by adapting the sails to the wind; as, to work a ship.
- To put to labor; to exert.
- To cause to ferment, as liquor.
- To effect by labor and exertion.“WORK out your own salvation with fear and trembling” Philippians 2:12
- To expend in any work as materials.
WORK, noun
[G., Gr.]
- Labor; employment; exertion of strength; particularly in man, manual labor.
- State of labor; as, to be at work
- Awkward performance.
- That which is made or done; as good work or bad work
- Embroidery; flowers or figures wrought with the needle.
- Any fabric or manufacture
- The matter on which one is at work In rising she dropped her work
- Action; deed; feat; achievement; as the works of bloody Mars.
- Operation.
- Effect; that which proceeds from agency.
- Management; treatment.
- That which is produced by mental labor; a composition; a book; as the works of Addison.
- Works, in the plural, walls, trenches and the like, made for fortifications.
- In theology, moral duties or external performances, as distinct from grace.
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.