maalal · deeds, doings

What it means

maalal (מַעֲלָל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “deeds, doings”.

What someone does, good or bad.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What someone usually does: his deeds, good or bad, which show what he is like.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• deeds ×38
• works ×3

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×5
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×17
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×5
• Micah×3
• Zechariah×2

• Deuteronomy 28:20

  YHWH will send on you the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke in all that you undertake with your hand that you do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.

• Judges 2:19

  But when the judge died, they would turn back and act more corruptly than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and to bow down to them; they did not let go of any of their deeds or of their stubborn way.

• 1 Samuel 25:3

  The name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was of good understanding and beautiful in form, but the man was harsh and evil in his deeds; he was a Calebite.

• Nehemiah 9:35

  And they, in their kingdom, and in your abundant goodness that you gave them, and in the wide and fertile land that you set before them, did not serve you, nor turn from their evil deeds.

• Psalms 28:4

  Give them according to their work and according to the evil of their deeds; according to the work of their hands give them; return their recompense to them.

• Psalms 77:11

  I will remember the works of Yah; yes, I will remember your wonder of old.

• Psalms 78:7

  and put in Elohim their confidence, and not forget the works of El, and keep his commandments,

• Psalms 106:29

  And they provoked him to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

• Psalms 106:39

  And they became unclean by their works, and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

• Proverbs 20:11

  Even by his deeds a youth makes himself known, whether clean and whether upright is his work.

• Isaiah 1:16

  Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; stop doing evil.

• Isaiah 3:8

  For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their tongue and their deeds are against YHWH, to rebel against the eyes of his glory.

• Isaiah 3:10

  Say of the righteous that it will be well, for the fruit of their deeds they will eat.

• Jeremiah 4:4

  Circumcise yourselves to YHWH, and remove the foreskins of your heart, men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, or my fury will go out like fire and burn with no one to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.

• Jeremiah 4:18

  Your way and your deeds have done these things to you; this is your evil, for it is bitter, for it has reached to your heart.”

• Jeremiah 7:3

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: Make good your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place.

• Jeremiah 7:5

  For if you truly make good your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a man and his neighbor,

• Jeremiah 11:18

  And YHWH made it known to me, and I knew it; then you showed me their deeds.

• Jeremiah 17:10

  I, YHWH, search the heart, I test the kidneys, to give to each one according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.

• Jeremiah 18:11

  And now, say, please, to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: ‘Thus says YHWH: Look, I am forming against you evil, and devising against you a plan. Turn back, please, each one from his evil way, and make good your ways and your deeds.’

• Jeremiah 21:12

  house of David! Thus says YHWH: Judge justly in the morning, and rescue the one who is robbed from the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire and burn with no one to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.

• Jeremiah 21:14

  And I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, declares YHWH; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it will devour all that is around her.’”

• Jeremiah 23:2

  Therefore, thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, concerning the shepherds who shepherd my people: You have scattered my sheep and driven them away, and you have not visited them; look, I am visiting upon you the evil of your deeds, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 23:22

  But if they had stood in my council, then they would have made my people hear my words, and they would have turned them back from their evil way and from the evil of their deeds.

• Jeremiah 25:5

  saying, ‘Turn back, please, each one from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and dwell on the ground that YHWH gave to you and to your fathers from of old and forever.

• Jeremiah 26:3

  Perhaps they will listen and turn back, each one from his evil way, and I will relent concerning the evil that I am planning to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.

• Jeremiah 26:13

  And now, make good your ways and your deeds, and listen to the voice of YHWH your Elohim, and YHWH will relent concerning the evil that he has spoken against you.

• Jeremiah 32:19

  great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open on all the ways of the children of humankind, to give to each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds;

• Jeremiah 35:15

  And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, ‘Turn back, please, each one from his evil way, and make good your deeds, and do not go after other gods to serve them; and you will live on the land that I gave to you and to your fathers’; but you have not inclined your ear or listened to me.

• Jeremiah 44:22

  And YHWH could no longer bear it because of the evil of your deeds, because of the abominations that you committed; so your land has become a ruin and a horror and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

• Ezekiel 36:31

  And you will remember your evil ways and your works that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and for your abominations.

• Hosea 4:9

  And it will be like people, like priest; and I will call him to account for his ways, and his deeds I will pay back to him.

• Hosea 5:4

  Their deeds do not allow them to return to their Elohim, for a spirit of prostitutions is in their midst, and YHWH they do not know.

• Hosea 7:2

  And they do not say to their heart that all their evil I remember; now their deeds surround them; they are before my face.

• Hosea 9:15

  All their evil is in Gilgal; for there I came to hate them; because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them out of my house; I will no longer love them; all their princes are rebels.

• Hosea 12:2

  And YHWH has a dispute with Judah, and he will call Jacob to account according to his ways; according to his deeds he will pay back to him.

• Micah 2:7

  Is it said, house of Jacob: “Has the spirit of YHWH been shortened? Are these his deeds?” Do not my words do good to the one who walks uprightly?

• Micah 3:4

  Then they will cry out to YHWH, and he will not answer them, and he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have made evil their deeds.

• Micah 7:13

  And the land will become a desolation because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their deeds.

• Zechariah 1:4

  Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets called out, saying, Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: Turn back, please, from your evil ways and from your evil deeds; but they did not listen, and did not pay attention to me, declares YHWH.

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