peula · work, wages

What it means

peula (פְּעֻלָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “work, wages”.

Work; also the pay for work, wages.

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 YHWH does.
2. What one receives for working.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• wages ×9
• work ×2
• As for the deeds ×1
• As his pay ×1
• works ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Leviticus 19:13

  You shall not oppress your neighbor and you shall not rob him. The wages of a hired worker shall not stay overnight with you until morning.

• 2 Chronicles 15:7

  But you, be strong, and do not let your hands go slack, for there are wages for your work.”

• Psalms 17:4

  As for the deeds of human beings, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the paths of the violent.

• Psalms 28:5

  For they do not understand the works of YHWH nor the work of his hands; he will tear them down and not build them up.

• Psalms 109:20

  This is the wages of my accusers from YHWH, and of those who speak evil against my soul.

• Proverbs 10:16

  The wages of the righteous lead to life; the yield of the wicked, to sin.

• Proverbs 11:18

  The wicked earns wages of falsehood, but whoever sows righteousness has a true reward.

• Isaiah 40:10

  Look, Adonai YHWH comes with might, and his arm rules for him; look, his reward is with him, and his wages before him.

• Isaiah 49:4

  But I said, “In vain I have worn myself out; for emptiness and vapor I have spent my strength; yet surely my right is with YHWH, and my wages with my Elohim.”

• Isaiah 61:8

  For I, YHWH, love justice; I hate robbery with burnt offering; and I will give their wages in truth, and an eternal covenant I will make with them.

• Isaiah 62:11

  Look, YHWH has made it heard to the end of the earth: “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Look, your salvation comes; look, his reward is with him, and his wages before him.’”

• Isaiah 65:7

  your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together, says YHWH, who burned incense on the mountains and on the hills taunted me; and I will measure their wages first into their bosom.”

• Jeremiah 31:16

  Thus says YHWH: “Keep back your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for there is a wage for your work, declares YHWH, and they will return from the land of the enemy.

• Ezekiel 29:20

  As his pay for which he labored against her I have given him the land of Egypt, because they did it for me, declares Adonai YHWH.