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pala פָּלָא pala

Wonder — what only God does. 'Is anything too wondrous for Jehovah?' (18:14) — the shelf's 'too hard' flattens it; Jeremiah asks the question back almost word for word (Jeremiah 32:17, 27). ⭐ The root stands in eight verses, and the range inside those eight is the interesting part: besides Genesis 18:14 it marks a vow SET APART from ordinary vows (Leviticus 27:2, Numbers 6:2), and then, at Deuteronomy 17:8, a legal case too EXTRAORDINARY for a village bench, which must go up to the chosen place. ⚠ Every English version on the shelf flattens that one to difficulty; the sense is not that the case is hard but that it is out of the ordinary run. The word for a miracle and the word for an appeal are the same word. ⭐ And at Deuteronomy 28:59 (now on these pages) its causative is turned on Israel: Jehovah will make your plagues extraordinary — what he did with wonders in Egypt done with plagues at home. → first discussed at Gen 18:14

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