mofet · wonder, portent

What it means

mofet (מוֹפֵת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wonder, portent”.

Wonder: an extraordinary deed that serves as a sign of God's power; also a sign or token.

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. An astonishing deed of God's power.
2. A sign of what is to come.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• wonders ×16
• wonder ×15
• portents ×4
• Like a portent ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×5
• Deuteronomy×9
• 1 Kings×3
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×5
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×4
• Joel×1
• Zechariah×1

• Exodus 4:21

  YHWH said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put in your hand. But I will make his heart obstinate, and he will not let the people go.

• Exodus 7:3

  But I will harden the heart of Pharaoh, and I will multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 7:9

  “When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Show a wonder for yourselves,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it before Pharaoh; let it become a serpent.’”

• Exodus 11:9

  YHWH said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”

• Exodus 11:10

  Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but YHWH made Pharaoh’s heart obstinate, and he did not let the sons of Israel go out of his land.

• Deuteronomy 4:34

  Or has a god tried to come and take for himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a strong hand and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that YHWH your Elohim did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

• Deuteronomy 6:22

  YHWH worked signs and wonders, great and harmful, against Egypt, against Pharaoh, and against all his house, before our eyes.

• Deuteronomy 7:19

  the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs and the wonders, the strong hand and the outstretched arm by which YHWH your Elohim brought you out. So YHWH your Elohim will do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.

• Deuteronomy 13:1

  If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder,

• Deuteronomy 13:2

  and the sign or the wonder comes about, of which he spoke to you, saying, “Let us go after other gods, whom you have not known, and let us serve them,”

• Deuteronomy 26:8

  And YHWH brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with great terror and with signs and with wonders.

• Deuteronomy 28:46

  And they will be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your offspring, forever.

• Deuteronomy 29:3

  the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs and those great wonders.

• Deuteronomy 34:11

  for all the signs and the wonders that YHWH sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land,

• 1 Kings 13:3

  And he gave a wonder that day, saying, “This is the wonder that YHWH has spoken: look, the altar will be torn apart, and the ashes that are on it will be poured out.”

• 1 Kings 13:5

  The altar was torn apart, and the ashes were poured out from the altar, according to the wonder that the man of Elohim had given by the word of YHWH.

• 1 Chronicles 16:12

  Remember his wonders that he has done, his portents and the judgments of his mouth,

• 2 Chronicles 32:24

  In those days Hezekiah became sick to the point of death; he prayed to YHWH, and he spoke to him and gave him a wonder.

• 2 Chronicles 32:31

  And so, with the interpreters of the officials of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, Elohim left him, to test him, to know all that was in his heart.

• Nehemiah 9:10

  and you gave signs and wonders against Pharaoh and against all his servants and against all the people of his land, for you knew that they had acted with arrogance against them; and you made yourself a name, as it is this day.

• Psalms 71:7

  Like a portent I have been to many, but you are my refuge of strength.

• Psalms 78:43

  when he set in Egypt his signs, and his portents in the field of Zoan;

• Psalms 105:5

  Remember his wonders that he has done, his portents and the judgments of his mouth,

• Psalms 105:27

  They set among them the words of his signs, and portents in the land of Ham.

• Psalms 135:9

  He sent signs and wonders into your midst, Egypt, against Pharaoh and against all his servants;

• Isaiah 8:18

  Look, I and the children whom YHWH has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from YHWH Tsevaot, who dwells on Mount Zion.

• Isaiah 20:3

  And YHWH said, “Just as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years, a sign and a wonder against Egypt and against Cush,

• Jeremiah 32:20

  who set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt to this day, both in Israel and among humankind, and made for yourself a name, as at this day.

• Jeremiah 32:21

  And you brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders, and with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror;

• Ezekiel 12:6

  Before their eyes you will carry it on your shoulder; in the darkness you will bring it out; your face you will cover, and you will not see the land; for a wonder I have made you for the house of Israel.”

• Ezekiel 12:11

  Say, ‘I am your wonder; as I have done, so it will be done to them; into exile, into captivity they will go.’

• Ezekiel 24:24

  And Ezekiel will be to you a wonder; according to all that he has done you will do; when it comes, you will know that I am Adonai YHWH.

• Ezekiel 24:27

  On that day your mouth will be opened with the fugitive, and you will speak and will not be mute anymore; and you will be to them a wonder, and they will know that I am YHWH.’”

• Joel 2:30

  And I will give wonders in the heavens and on the earth: blood and fire and columns of smoke.

• Zechariah 3:8

  Hear, please, Joshua the high priest, you and your companions who sit before you, for they are men of wonder; for look, I am bringing my servant, the sprout.

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