Occurrences
Mâʻal occurs 36 times in 35 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Leviticus (3), Numbers (3), Deuteronomy (1), Joshua (4), 1 Chronicles (3), 2 Chronicles (8), Ezra (2), Nehemiah (2), Proverbs (1), Ezekiel (7), Daniel (1)
- Leviticus 5:15 — If a soul commit (תִמְעֹ֣ל) 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 6:2 — If a soul sin, and commit (וּמָעֲלָ֥ה) 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 26:40 — If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed (מָֽעֲלוּ) against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
- Numbers 5:6 — Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do (לִמְעֹ֥ל) a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty;
- Numbers 5:12 — Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit (וּמָעֲלָ֥ה) a trespass against him,
- Numbers 5:27 — And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done (וַתִּמְעֹ֣ל) 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.
- Deuteronomy 32:51 — Because ye trespassed (מְעַלְתֶּ֜ם) against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
- Joshua 7:1 — But the children of Israel committed (וַיִּמְעֲל֧וּ) a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.
- Joshua 22:16 — Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass is this that ye have committed (מְעַלְתֶּם֙) against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the LORD?
- Joshua 22:20 — Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit (מָ֤עַל) a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.
- Joshua 22:31 — And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD is among us, because ye have not committed (מְעַלְתֶּ֥ם) this trespass against the LORD: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.
- 1 Chronicles 2:7 — And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed (מָעַ֖ל) in the thing accursed.
- 1 Chronicles 5:25 — And they transgressed (וַיִּֽמְעֲל֔וּ) against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
- 1 Chronicles 10:13 — So Saul died for his transgression which he committed (מָעַ֣ל) against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it;
- 2 Chronicles 12:2 — And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed (מָעֲל֖וּ) against the LORD,
- 2 Chronicles 26:16 — But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed (וַיִּמְעַ֖ל) against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
- 2 Chronicles 26:18 — And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed (מָעַ֔לְתָּ); neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God.
- 2 Chronicles 28:19 — For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed (וּמָע֥וֹל) sore against the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 28:22 — And in the time of his distress did he trespass (לִמְע֣וֹל) yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.
- 2 Chronicles 29:6 — For our fathers have trespassed (מָעֲל֣וּ), and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.
- 2 Chronicles 30:7 — And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed (מָעֲל֔וּ) against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
- 2 Chronicles 36:14 — Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much (לִמְעָל) after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
- Ezra 10:2 — And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed (מָעַ֣לְנוּ) against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
- Ezra 10:10 — And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed (מְעַלְתֶּ֔ם), and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.
- Nehemiah 1:8 — Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress (תִּמְעָ֔לוּ), I will scatter you abroad among the nations:
- Nehemiah 13:27 — Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress (לִמְעֹ֖ל) against our God in marrying strange wives?
- Proverbs 16:10 — A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth (יִמְעַל) not in judgment.
- Ezekiel 14:13 — Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing (לִמְעָל) grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:
- Ezekiel 15:8 — And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed (מָ֣עֲלוּ) a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 17:20 — And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass (מָֽעַל) that he hath trespassed against me.
- Ezekiel 17:20 — And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed (מָֽעַל) against me.
- Ezekiel 18:24 — But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed (מָעַ֛ל), and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
- Ezekiel 20:27 — Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed (בְּמַעֲלָ֥ם) a trespass against me.
- Ezekiel 39:23 — And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed (מָֽעֲלוּ) against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
- Ezekiel 39:26 — After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed (מָעֲלוּ) against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.
- Daniel 9:7 — 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 (מָֽעֲלוּ) against thee.