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פָּעַל

to do

‘to do’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓

H6466 Strong's Hebrew
pâʻal Transliteration
/paw-al'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 56 appearances

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Grammar key — what these labels mean

Part of speech

Verb
An action or state-of-being word.

Stem

Qal
The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘do’

Form

Participle Active
A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
Perfect
A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Imperfect
An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Sequential Imperfect
An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).

State

Construct
A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Absolute
The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.

Person

2nd Person
The one addressed (“you”).
3rd Person
The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
1st Person
The speaker (“I / we”).

Gender

Masculine
Grammatically masculine.
Common
Either gender — not distinguished for this form.

Number

Plural
More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Singular
One.

Grammatical forms 12 distinct

  • Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Construct 24 times (43%)
  • Verb, Qal, Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular 6 times (11%)
  • Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 6 times (11%)
  • Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 5 times (9%)
  • Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural 3 times (5%)
  • Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 3 times (5%)
  • Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular 2 times (4%)
  • Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular 2 times (4%)

+4 more forms (5 occurrences)

Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 56 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.

Every verse where H6466 appears — 55 distinct verses across 11 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.

Exodus 1 verse

Numbers 1 verse

Deuteronomy 1 verse

Job 11 verses

Psalms 26 verses

Proverbs 4 verses

Isaiah 6 verses

Hosea 2 verses

Micah 1 verse

Habakkuk 1 verse

Zephaniah 1 verse

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