poal · deed, work

What it means

poal (פֹּעַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “deed, work”.

What someone does.

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 does; what God accomplishes.
2. What is given to the one who worked, in return for his labor.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• work ×27
• deeds ×6
• wages ×2
• Getting ×1
• deed ×1
• do ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×2
• Ruth×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×6
• Psalms×11
• Proverbs×5
• Isaiah×6
• Jeremiah×3
• Habakkuk×2

• Deuteronomy 32:4

  The Rock: his work is blameless, for all his ways are justice. An El of faithfulness and without injustice, righteous and upright is he.

• Deuteronomy 33:11

  Bless, YHWH, his strength, and accept the work of his hands; crush the loins of those who rise up against him and of those who hate him, so that they do not rise again.”

• Ruth 2:12

  May YHWH repay your work, and may your wages be full from YHWH, Elohim of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

• 2 Samuel 23:20

  Benaiah son of Jehoiada was the son of a valiant man, great in deeds, from Kabzeel; he struck the two Ariel of Moab; and he went down and struck the lion in the middle of the well on the day of the snow.

• 1 Chronicles 11:22

  Benaiah son of Jehoiada, son of a valiant man, great in deeds, from Kabzeel: he struck the two Ariel of Moab; and he went down and struck the lion in the middle of the well on the day of the snow.

• Job 7:2

  Like a slave who pants for the shade, and like a hired worker who hopes for his wages,

• Job 24:5

  Look, like wild donkeys in the wilderness they go out to their work, seeking prey; the steppe yields them bread for the boys.

• Job 34:11

  For the work of a human being he repays to him, and according to the path of a man he makes it find him.

• Job 36:9

  then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they have played the strong man.

• Job 36:24

  Remember to extol his work, of which men have sung.

• Job 37:12

  And it turns around by his designs, to do all that he commands them over the face of the world, the earth.

• Psalms 9:16

  YHWH has made himself known; he has carried out judgment; in the work of his hands the wicked is ensnared. Higaion. Selah.

• 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 44:1

  For the director. Of the sons of Korah. A maskil. Elohim, with our ears we have heard; our fathers have recounted to us the work you worked in their days, in the days of old.

• Psalms 64:9

  And all human beings fear, and they declare the work of Elohim, and what he has done they understand.

• Psalms 77:12

  And I will meditate on all your work, and on your deeds I will reflect.

• Psalms 90:16

  Let your work appear to your servants, and your majesty upon their children.

• Psalms 92:4

  For you have made me glad, YHWH, by your work; at the works of your hands I shout for joy.

• Psalms 95:9

  when your fathers put me to the test; they examined me, though they had seen my work.

• Psalms 104:23

  Man goes out to his work, and to his labor until evening.

• Psalms 111:3

  Splendor and majesty is his work, and his righteousness endures forever.

• Psalms 143:5

  I remember the days of old; I meditate on all your deeds; on the work of your hands I reflect.

• Proverbs 20:11

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

• Proverbs 21:6

  Getting treasures with a tongue of falsehood is a vapor driven away; they are seekers of death.

• Proverbs 21:8

  Twisted is the way of a guilty man, but the pure, upright is his work.

• Proverbs 24:12

  If you say, “Look, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs hearts understand it? And he who keeps your soul, he will know it, and he will repay a man according to his work.

• Proverbs 24:29

  Do not say, “As he did to me, so I will do to him; I will repay the man according to his work.”

• Isaiah 1:31

  And the strong man will become tow, and his work a spark; and both of them will burn together, with no one to quench them.

• Isaiah 5:12

  And there are lyre and harp, tambourine and flute, and wine at their feasts; but the deeds of YHWH they do not regard, and the work of his hands they do not see.

• Isaiah 41:24

  Look, you are of nothing, and your work of nothing; an abomination is he who chooses you.

• Isaiah 45:9

  Woe to him who contends with his Former, a potsherd among the potsherds of the ground! Will the clay say to the one who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands’?

• Isaiah 45:11

  Thus says YHWH, the Holy One of Israel and his Former: “Ask me about the things that are coming; concerning my sons and concerning the work of my hands will you command me?

• Isaiah 59:6

  Their webs will not become clothing, and they will not cover themselves with their works; their works are works of wickedness, and the deed of violence is in their palms.

• Jeremiah 22:13

  Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness, and his upper rooms without justice; who makes his neighbor work for nothing and does not give him his wages;

• Jeremiah 25:14

  For many nations and great kings will make slaves of them, them too; and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.”

• Jeremiah 50:29

  Summon against Babylon archers, all who bend the bow; encamp against her all around; let there be no escape for her. Repay her according to her deeds; according to all that she has done, do to her; for against YHWH she has acted insolently, against the Holy One of Israel.

• Habakkuk 1:5

  “Look among the nations, and observe, and be astonished, be astonished; for a work I am working in your days that you would not believe if it were told.

• Habakkuk 3:2

  YHWH, I have heard the report of you; I have feared. YHWH, your work, in the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in turmoil remember mercy.