Maalal מַעֲלָל

Maalal (Hebrew מַעֲלָל, Strong's H4611) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “deed”. It occurs 41 times in 41 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Maalal, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 28:20
  The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him.

Judges

• Judges 2:19
  And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

1 Samuel

• 1 Samuel 25:3
  Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.His name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband, a Calebite, was harsh and evil in his dealings.

Nehemiah

• Nehemiah 9:35
  For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.For even while they were in their kingdom, with the abundant goodness that You had given them, and in the spacious and fertile land that You had set before them, they would not serve You or turn from their wicked ways.

Psalms

• Psalm 28:4
  Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.Repay them according to their deeds and for their works of evil. Repay them for what their hands have done; bring back on them what they deserve.
• Psalm 77:11
  I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.I will remember the works of the LORD; yes, I will remember Your wonders of old.
• Psalm 78:7
  That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.
• Psalm 106:29
  Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
• Psalm 106:39
  Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 20:11
  Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.Even a young man is known by his actions— whether his conduct is pure and upright.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 1:16
  Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
• Isaiah 3:8
  For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.
• Isaiah 3:10
  Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 4:4
  Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”
• Jeremiah 4:18
  Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”
• Jeremiah 7:3
  Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.
• Jeremiah 7:5
  For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
• Jeremiah 11:18
  And the Lord hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.And the LORD informed me, so I knew. Then You showed me their deeds.
• Jeremiah 17:10
  I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
• Jeremiah 18:11
  Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.’
• Jeremiah 21:12
  O house of David, thus saith the Lord; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.O house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds.
• Jeremiah 21:14
  But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the Lord: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.I will punish you as your deeds deserve, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in your forest that will consume everything around you.’”
• Jeremiah 23:2
  Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the Lord.Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your deeds, declares the LORD.
• Jeremiah 23:22
  But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.But if they had stood in My council, they would have proclaimed My words to My people and turned them back from their evil ways and deeds.”
• Jeremiah 25:5
  They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:The prophets told you, ‘Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and deeds, and you can dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.
• Jeremiah 26:3
  If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.Perhaps they will listen and turn—each from his evil way of life—so that I may relent of the disaster I am planning to bring upon them because of the evil of their deeds.
• Jeremiah 26:13
  Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God; and the Lord will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, so that He might relent of the disaster He has pronounced against you.
• Jeremiah 32:19
  Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
• Jeremiah 35:15
  I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.
• Jeremiah 44:22
  So that the Lord could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 36:31
  Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and abominations.

Hosea

• Hosea 4:9
  And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.And it shall be like people, like priest. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.
• Hosea 5:4
  They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the LORD.
• Hosea 7:2
  And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.
• Hosea 9:15
  All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.
• Hosea 12:2
  The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.The LORD also brings a charge against Judah. He will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.

Micah

• Micah 2:7
  O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the Lord straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?Should it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?” Do not My words bring good to him who walks uprightly?
• Micah 3:4
  Then shall they cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.
• Micah 7:13
  Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.

Zechariah

• Zechariah 1:4
  Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the Lord.Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.
• Zechariah 1:6
  But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the Lord of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).