פֹּעַל pôʻal — an act or work (concretely)
Translated in the KJV as act, deed, do, getting, maker, work.
from H6466; an act or work (concretely).
pôʻal in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Infinitive construct 1
לְפָעֳלָ֑ם Job 37:12 Infinitive construct
And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›