Occurrences
Maʻal occurs 28 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Leviticus (3), Numbers (4), Joshua (5), 1 Chronicles (2), 2 Chronicles (4), Ezra (3), Job (1), Ezekiel (5), Daniel (1)
- Leviticus 5:15 — If a soul commit a trespass (מַ֔עַל), 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 a trespass (מַ֖עַל) 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 (בְּמַעֲלָ֖ם) which they trespassed 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 a trespass (מַ֖עַל) 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 a trespass (מָֽעַל) 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 trespass (מַ֣עַל) 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.
- Numbers 31:16 — Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass (מַ֥עַל) against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
- Joshua 7:1 — But the children of Israel committed a trespass (מַ֖עַל) 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 (הַמַּ֤עַל) is this that ye have committed 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 a trespass (מַ֙עַל֙) in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.
- Joshua 22:22 — The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression (בְּמַ֙עַל֙) against the LORD, (save us not this day,)
- 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 this trespass (הַמַּ֣עַל) against the LORD: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.
- 1 Chronicles 9:1 — So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression (בְּמַעֲלָֽם).
- 1 Chronicles 10:13 — So Saul died for his transgression (בְּמַֽעֲלוֹ֙) which he committed 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 28:19 — For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 29:19 — Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression (בְּמַעֲל֖וֹ), have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 33:19 — His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass (וּמַעְלוֹ֒), and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.
- 2 Chronicles 36:14 — Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much (מַ֔עַל) after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
- Ezra 9:2 — For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass (בַּמַּ֥עַל).
- Ezra 9:4 — Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression (מַ֣עַל) of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.
- Ezra 10:6 — Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression (מַ֥עַל) of them that had been carried away.
- Job 21:34 — How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood (מָֽעַל)?
- Ezekiel 14:13 — Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously (מַ֔עַל), 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 a trespass (מַ֔עַל), saith the Lord GOD.
- 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 (בְּמַעֲל֧וֹ) that he hath trespassed, 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 a trespass (מָֽעַל) against me.
- Ezekiel 39:26 — After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses (מַעֲלָ֖ם) whereby they have trespassed 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 (בְּמַעֲלָ֖ם) that they have trespassed against thee.