{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H6381",
  "lemma": "פָּלָא",
  "transliteration": "pâlâʼ",
  "definition": "properly, perhaps to separate, i.e. distinguish (literally or figuratively); by implication, to be (causatively, make) great, difficult, wonderful",
  "kjv": "accomplish, (arise...too, be too) hard, hidden, things too high, (be, do, do a, shew)…",
  "occurrences": 71,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[פָּלָא] 71 vb. denom. Niph. etc., be surpassing, extraordinary",
    "Niph.",
    "1. be beyond one's power, difficult to do",
    "2. be difficult to understand",
    "a. be extraordinary, wonderful",
    "b. as subst., marvellous things",
    "4. = wonderful acts of י׳ in judgement and redemption",
    "Pi. make a special votive offering",
    "Hiph.",
    "1. do a hard or difficult thing",
    "2. make wonderful, do wondrously",
    "3. of God working wonders in doing",
    "Hithp. thou dost shew thyself marvellous (act inexplicably) against me"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 18:14",
      "text": "Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes around, and Sarah will…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 3:20",
      "text": "I will reach out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do among them, and after that he will let…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/3?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 34:10",
      "text": "He said, “Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/34?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Leviticus 22:21",
      "text": "Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD to accomplish a vow, or for a free will offering of the herd…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/22?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Leviticus 27:2",
      "text": "“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When a man consecrates a person to the LORD in a vow, according to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/27?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 6:2",
      "text": "“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/6?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 15:3",
      "text": "and will make an offering by fire to the LORD—a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a free will…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/15?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 15:8",
      "text": "When you prepare a bull for a burnt offering or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings to the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/15?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 17:8",
      "text": "If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/17?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 28:59",
      "text": "then the LORD will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/28?v=59"
    }
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