Quick Definition
to wonder
Strong's Definition
properly, perhaps to separate, i.e. distinguish (literally or figuratively); by implication, to be (causatively, make) great, difficult, wonderful
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: accomplish, (arise...too, be too) hard, hidden, things too high, (be, do, do a, shew) marvelous(-ly, -els, things, work), miracles, perform, separate, make singular, (be, great, make) wonderful(-ers, -ly, things, works), wondrous (things, works, -ly).
TWOT Reference: 1768
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
פָּלָא (pa.la) — to wonder. 1) to be marvellous, be wonderful, be surpassing, be extraordinary, separate by distinguishing action 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to be beyond one's power, be difficult to do 1a2) to be difficult to understand 1a3) to be wonderful, be extraordinary 1a3a) marvellous (participle) 1b) (Piel) to separate (an offering) 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to do extraordinary or hard or difficult thing 1c2) to make wonderful, do wondrously 1d) (Hithpael) to show oneself wonderful or marvellous
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · פֶּלֶא · פִּלְאִי · מִפְלָאָה
Extraordinary | verb nif, verb hif | ≈ כָּבֹוד · מֹופֵת
to be extraordinary, to be wonderful, to be difficult = state in which an event is out of the ordinary, inspiring amazement, and usually associated with the supernatural
GEN 18:14 · EXO 3:20 · EXO 34:10 · DEU 17:8 · DEU 30:11 · JOS 3:5 · JDG 6:13 · 2SA 1:26 · 2SA 13:2 · 1CH 16:9 · 1CH 16:12 · 1CH 16:24 · 2CH 2:8 · NEH 9:17 · JOB 5:9 · JOB 9:10 · JOB 37:5 · JOB 37:14 · JOB 42:3 · PSA 9:2 · PSA 26:7 · PSA 40:6 · PSA 71:17 · PSA 72:18 · PSA 75:2 · PSA 78:4 · PSA 78:11 · PSA 78:32 · PSA 86:10 · PSA 96:3 · PSA 98:1 · PSA 105:2 · PSA 105:5 · PSA 106:7 · PSA 106:22 · PSA 107:8 · PSA 107:15 · PSA 107:21 · PSA 107:24 · PSA 107:31 · PSA 111:4 · PSA 118:23 · PSA 119:18 · PSA 119:27 · PSA 131:1 · PSA 136:4 · PSA 139:14 · PSA 139:14 · PSA 145:5 · PRO 30:18 · JER 21:2 · JER 32:17 · JER 32:27 · DAN 8:24 · DAN 11:36 · MIC 7:15 · ZEC 8:6 · ZEC 8:6
Extraordinary | verb hit
to show oneself marvellous = action by which deities perform events that are out of the ordinary and inspire amazement
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[פָּלָא] 71 vb. denom. Niph. etc., be surpassing, extraordinary Niph. be beyond one's power, difficult to do
be difficult to understand
be extraordinary, wonderful
as subst., marvellous things
= wonderful acts of י׳ in judgement and redemption
Pi. make a special votive offering
Hiph. do a hard or difficult thing
make wonderful, do wondrously
of God working wonders in doing
Hithp. thou dost shew thyself marvellous (act inexplicably) against me
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