פֶּלֶאpeleʼ

wonder

Pronunciation: peh'-leh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6382

Meanings

1. wonder, extraordinary, hard to be understood (Isaiah 29:14; Psalms 119:129; Isaiah 9:5)

2. wonder, of God's acts of judgment and redemption, of extraordinary trials (Psalms 77:12; Psalms 88:13; Psalms 89:6)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 13 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 15:11 “Who is like you among the gods, O Lord— glorious in holiness, awesome in splendor, performing great wonders?
  • Psalms 77:11 But then I recall all you have done, O Lord; I remember your wonderful deeds of long ago.
  • Psalms 77:14 You are the God of great wonders! You demonstrate your awesome power among the nations.
  • Psalms 78:12 the miracles he did for their ancestors on the plain of Zoan in the land of Egypt.
  • Psalms 88:10 Are your wonderful deeds of any use to the dead? Do the dead rise up and praise you? Interlude
  • Psalms 88:12 Can the darkness speak of your wonderful deeds? Can anyone in the land of forgetfulness talk about your righteousness?
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).