פלל (fll) — to expect / to pray / to intercede

Notes: Passage: OET EZE 16:52
NJPS "serving as advocate" ESV "intervened" NJB "freed" REB "pleaded (her) cause" | RSV "make judgment favorable" NIV "furnished justification" NRSV "brought about a favorable judgment"

Form 1

Part of speech: vb

Related names: אֱלִיפַל

Related lemmas: פָּלִיל · פְּלִילָה · פְּלִילִי · פְּלִילִיָּה

Sense 1: to expect

Semantic domains: Think (002004002014)

Core domains: Mind (106)

Definition: = state in which humans regard an event as likely to happen

Forms: vbpiel

Show passage in OET: GEN 48:11

OET-RV GEN 48:11

11 “I never expected to see you again” he said to Yosef, “but wow, God has even let me see your children as well.”

OET-LV GEN 48:11

11 And_ Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel) _he/it _said to Yōşēf to _see face _of_your not I _judged and_BEHOLD/LO/SEE god he _has _shown DOM_me also DOM offspring _of_your.

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Form 2

Part of speech: vb

Related lemmas: תְּפִלָּה

Sense 1: to pray, to intercede

Semantic domains: Pray (002004001009010)

Core domains: Communication (041); Prayer (131)

Definition: = action by which humans speak to a deity, often by raising their hands, ► requesting help or expressing their thankfulness

Forms: vbhit-

Show passage in OET: GEN 20:7

OET-RV GEN 20:7

7 So now, return that man’s wife because he’s a prophet, and he’ll pray for you and you’ll live. But if you don’t return her, be certain that you and all your people will surely die.”

OET-LV GEN 20:7

7 And_now return the _wife _of the_man if/because is_a _prophet he and_he _will _pray for_you and_live and_if not_you are_returning_her know if/because _that surely _(die) you and_all who to/for_you(fs) you _will _die.

Show passage in OET: GEN 20:17

OET-RV GEN 20:17

17 Then Avraham prayed to God, and God healed Avimelek and his wife and his slave women so that they could have children,

OET-LV GEN 20:17

17 And_ ʼAⱱrāhām _he _prayed to the_ʼElohīm and_ god _he _healed DOM ʼAⱱīmelek and_DOM his/its_wife/woman and_his _female _of_slaves and_they _bore _children.

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All 78 recorded passages for this sense

GEN: OET GEN 20:7 · OET GEN 20:17

NUM: OET NUM 11:2 · OET NUM 21:7

DEU: OET DEU 9:20 · OET DEU 9:26

SA1: OET SA1 1:10 · OET SA1 1:12 · OET SA1 1:26–27 · OET SA1 2:1 · OET SA1 7:5 · OET SA1 8:6 · OET SA1 12:19 · OET SA1 12:23

SA2: OET SA2 7:27

KI1: OET KI1 8:28–30 · OET KI1 8:33 · OET KI1 8:35 · OET KI1 8:42 · OET KI1 8:44 · OET KI1 8:48 · OET KI1 8:54 · OET KI1 13:6

KI2: OET KI2 4:33 · OET KI2 6:17–18 · OET KI2 19:15 · OET KI2 19:20 · OET KI2 20:2

CH1: OET CH1 17:25

CH2: OET CH2 6:19–21 · OET CH2 6:24 · OET CH2 6:26 · OET CH2 6:32 · OET CH2 6:34 · OET CH2 6:38 · OET CH2 7:1 · OET CH2 7:14 · OET CH2 30:18 · OET CH2 32:20 · OET CH2 32:24 · OET CH2 33:13

EZR: OET EZR 10:1

NEH: OET NEH 1:4 · OET NEH 1:6 · OET NEH 2:4 · OET NEH 4:9

JOB: OET JOB 42:8 · OET JOB 42:10

PSA: OET PSA 5:2 · OET PSA 32:6 · OET PSA 72:15

ISA: OET ISA 16:12 · OET ISA 37:15 · OET ISA 37:21 · OET ISA 38:2 · OET ISA 44:17 · OET ISA 45:14 · OET ISA 45:20

JER: OET JER 7:16 · OET JER 11:14 · OET JER 14:11 · OET JER 29:7 · OET JER 29:12 · OET JER 32:16 · OET JER 37:3 · OET JER 42:2 · OET JER 42:4 · OET JER 42:20

DAN: OET DAN 9:4 · OET DAN 9:20

JNA: OET JNA 2:1 · OET JNA 4:2

Sense 2: to intervene

Semantic domains: Safe (002003003018)

Core domains: Security (152)

Definition: literally: to intercede; hence: = action by which humans or deities come between in order to alter a situation

Forms: vbpiel

Show passage in OET: SA1 2:25

OET-RV SA1 2:25

25 If someone sins against a person, then God will mediate for him, but if someone sins against Yahweh, who will speak up for that person?” But they wouldn’t listen to their father’s advice because Yahweh wanted to put them to death.

OET-LV SA1 2:25

25 If a _person he _will _sin to_a _person and_he_will _mediate _for _him god and_if to/for_YHWH a _person he _will _sin who will _he _intercede to_him/it and_not they _listened to_sound/voice their _father _of_their if/because YHWH he _desired to_put_them _to _death.

Show passage in OET: PSA 106:30

OET-RV PSA 106:30

30 Then Pinhas took a stand and intervened
⇔ and stopped that plague.

OET-LV PSA 106:30

30 And_ Pinḩāş _he _stood _up and_he _mediated and_ the_plague _it _was _restrained.

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All 3 recorded passages for this sense

SA1: OET SA1 2:25

PSA: OET PSA 106:30

EZE: OET EZE 16:52

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

פלל

Form 1

Sense 1: to expect

Form 2

Sense 1: to pray, to intercede

Sense 2: to intervene