פְּעֻלָּה
wages
‘wages’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 12 times (86%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct 2 times (14%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 14 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6468 appears — 14 distinct verses across 7 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.
Leviticus 1 verse
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Psalms 3 verses
- Psalms 17:4 לִ/פְעֻלּ֣וֹת prep + n c fp cs As for the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
- Psalms 28:5 פְּעֻלֹּ֣ת n c fp cs Because they don't regard the works of Yahweh, Nor the operation of his hands, He will break them down and not build them up.
- Psalms 109:20 פְּעֻלַּ֣ת n c fs cs This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, Of those who speak evil against my soul.
Proverbs 2 verses
Isaiah 5 verses
- Isaiah 40:10 וּ/פְעֻלָּת֖/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him: Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
- Isaiah 49:4 וּ/פְעֻלָּתִ֖/י conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Yahweh, and my recompense with my God.
- Isaiah 61:8 פְעֻלָּתָ/ם֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp For I, Yahweh, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
- Isaiah 62:11 וּ/פְעֻלָּת֖/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, Say you to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
- Isaiah 65:7 פְעֻלָּתָ֛/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, says Yahweh, who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom.
Jeremiah 1 verse
Ezekiel 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
פעלה (pᵉʻullâh) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “wages.” It first appears in Leviticus 19:13. With 14 verses in 7 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. It concentrates in Isaiah, which alone accounts for 36% of its uses. Ranging over 3 senses, it is not a single-sense word. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6468 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,910
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,910 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 14 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 7 verses · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 6 verses · 43%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 7%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Work 6×, Is with him and his work 2×, Labour 2×
- American Standard Version: Recompense 3×, Work 3×, Works 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Recompense 3×, Reward 3×, Deeds 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Recompense 2×, Reward 2×, Wage of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6468 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6468 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6468 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6468 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 3 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- work, recompense, reward
- work
- wages
Word origin
[ פְּעֻלָּה ] n.f. work, recompense (poet. and late)
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from פעל (pâʻal) (H6466) — to do.
Forms in the corpus
The 12 distinct written forms H6468 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וּ/פְעֻלָּת֖/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 40:10 | 2 |
| פְּעֻלַּ֣ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Proverbs 10:16 | 2 |
| וּ/פְעֻלָּתִ֖/י | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 49:4 | 1 |
| לִ/פְעֻלּ֣וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 17:4 | 1 |
| לִ/פְעֻלַּתְ/כֶֽם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | 2 Chronicles 15:7 | 1 |
| לִ/פְעֻלָּתֵ/ךְ֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Jeremiah 31:16 | 1 |
| פְעֻלַּת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Proverbs 11:18 | 1 |
| פְעֻלָּתָ/ם֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 61:8 | 1 |
| פְעֻלָּתָ֛/ם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 65:7 | 1 |
| פְּעֻלַּ֥ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 19:13 | 1 |
| פְּעֻלָּת/וֹ֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 29:20 | 1 |
| פְּעֻלֹּ֣ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 28:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6468, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 13 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 14 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Leviticus 19:13
- 2 Chronicles 15:7
- Psalms 17:4
- Proverbs 10:16
- Isaiah 40:10
- Jeremiah 31:16
- Ezekiel 29:20
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
