# H6381 פָּלָא

פָּלָא (pâlâʼ), Strong’s H6381: properly, perhaps to separate, i.e. distinguish (literally or figuratively); by implication, to be (causatively, make) great, difficult, wonderful KJV: accomplish…

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*pâlâʼ* — 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)…

Occurs 71 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 18:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=14) — Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes around, and Sarah will…
- [Exodus 3:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/3?v=20) — 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…
- [Exodus 34:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/34?v=10) — He said, “Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the…
- [Leviticus 22:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/22?v=21) — Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD to accomplish a vow, or for a free will offering of the herd…
- [Leviticus 27:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/27?v=2) — “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When a man consecrates a person to the LORD in a vow, according to…
- [Numbers 6:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/6?v=2) — “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a…
- [Numbers 15:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/15?v=3) — 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…
- [Numbers 15:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/15?v=8) — When you prepare a bull for a burnt offering or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings to the…
- [Deuteronomy 17:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/17?v=8) — If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between…
- [Deuteronomy 28:59](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/28?v=59) — then the LORD will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long…