Usually translated as
work, do, commit, maker, evildo, doer, make, ordain, worker
Occurrences
Pâʻal occurs 57 times in 56 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (1), Numbers (1), Deuteronomy (1), Job (12), Psalms (26), Proverbs (4), Isaiah (6), Hosea (2), Micah (1), Habakkuk (1), Zephaniah (1)
- Exodus 15:17 — Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made (פָּעַ֖לְתָּ) for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.
- Numbers 23:23 — Surely 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 (פָּ֖עַל)!
- Deuteronomy 32:27 — Were 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 (פָּעַ֥ל) all this.
- Job 7:20 — I have sinned; what shall I do (אֶפְעַ֨ל) 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 11:8 — It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do (תִּפְעָ֑ל)? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
- Job 22:17 — Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do (יִּפְעַ֖ל) for them?
- Job 31:3 — Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers (לְפֹ֣עֲלֵי) of iniquity?
- Job 33:29 — Lo, all these things worketh (יִפְעַל) God oftentimes with man,
- Job 34:8 — Which goeth in company with the workers (פֹּ֣עֲלֵי) of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
- Job 34:22 — There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers (פֹּ֣עֲלֵי) of iniquity may hide themselves.
- Job 34:32 — That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done (פָּ֝עַ֗לְתִּי) iniquity, I will do no more.
- Job 35:6 — If thou sinnest, what doest (תִּפְעָל) thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
- Job 36:3 — I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker (וּ֝לְפֹעֲלִ֗י).
- Job 36:23 — Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought (פָּעַ֥לְתָּ) iniquity?
- Job 37:12 — And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do (לְפָעֳלָ֑ם) whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.
- Psalms 5:5 — The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers (פֹּ֥עֲלֵי) of iniquity.
- Psalms 6:8 — Depart from me, all ye workers (פֹּ֣עֲלֵי) of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
- Psalms 7:13 — He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth (יִפְעָֽל) his arrows against the persecutors.
- Psalms 7:15 — He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made (יִפְעָֽל).
- Psalms 11:3 — If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do (פָּעָֽל)?
- Psalms 14:4 — Have all the workers (פֹּ֪עֲלֵ֫י) of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
- Psalms 15:2 — He that walketh uprightly, and worketh (וּפֹעֵ֥ל) righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
- Psalms 28:3 — Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers (פֹּ֪עֲלֵ֫י) of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
- Psalms 31:19 — Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought (פָּ֭עַלְתָּ) for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
- Psalms 36:12 — There are the workers (פֹּ֣עֲלֵי) of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.
- Psalms 44:1 — We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst (פָּעַ֥לְתָּ) in their days, in the times of old.
- Psalms 53:4 — Have the workers (פֹּ֤עֲלֵ֫י) of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
- Psalms 58:2 — Yea, in heart ye work (תִּפְעָ֫ל֥וּן) wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
- Psalms 59:2 — Deliver me from the workers (מִפֹּ֣עֲלֵי) of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
- Psalms 64:2 — Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers (פֹּ֣עֲלֵי) of iniquity:
- Psalms 68:28 — Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought (פָּעַ֥לְתָּ) for us.
- Psalms 74:12 — For God is my King of old, working (פֹּעֵ֥ל) salvation in the midst of the earth.
- Psalms 92:7 — When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers (פֹּ֣עֲלֵי) of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
- Psalms 92:9 — For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers (פֹּ֥עֲלֵי) of iniquity shall be scattered.
- Psalms 94:4 — How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers (פֹּ֥עֲלֵי) of iniquity boast themselves?
- Psalms 94:16 — Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers (פֹּ֥עֲלֵי) of iniquity?
- Psalms 101:8 — I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers (פֹּ֥עֲלֵי) from the city of the LORD.
- Psalms 119:3 — They also do (פָעֲל֣וּ) no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
- Psalms 125:5 — As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers (פֹּעֲלֵ֣י) of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
- Psalms 141:4 — Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work (פֹּֽעֲלֵי) iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
- Psalms 141:9 — Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers (פֹּ֣עֲלֵי) of iniquity.
- Proverbs 10:29 — The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers (לְפֹ֣עֲלֵי) of iniquity.
- Proverbs 16:4 — The LORD hath made (פָּעַ֣ל) all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
- Proverbs 21:15 — It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers (לְפֹ֣עֲלֵי) of iniquity.
- Proverbs 30:20 — Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done (פָעַ֥לְתִּי) no wickedness.
- Isaiah 26:12 — LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought (פָּעַ֥לְתָּ) all our works in us.
- Isaiah 31:2 — Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work (פֹּ֥עֲלֵי) iniquity.
- Isaiah 41:4 — Who hath wrought (פָעַ֣ל) and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
- Isaiah 43:13 — Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work (אֶפְעַ֖ל), and who shall let it?
- Isaiah 44:12 — The smith with the tongs both worketh (וּפָעַל֙) in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.