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aphelah: darkness, gloominess, calamity
Original Word: אֲפֵלָה
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: aphelah
Phonetic Spelling: (af-ay-law')
Short Definition: gloom

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from the same as ophel
Definition
darkness, gloominess, calamity
NASB Translation
darkness (4), gloom (5), thick (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
אֲפֵלָה noun feminine darkness, gloominess, calamity — ׳א Exodus 10:22 +; אֲפֵלָתְךָ Isaiah 58:10; plural אֲפֵלוֺת Isaiah 59:9 —

1 darkness Deuteronomy 28:29; Proverbs 7:9 ("" אִישׁוֺן לַיְלָה); of supernatural darkness in Egypt Exodus 10:22; of day of .׳י (compare Amos 5:20 below אָפֵל) Joel 2:2; Zephaniah 1:15 (both "" חשׁך ענן, רְפל) simile of wickedness Jeremiah 23:18; Proverbs 4:19.

2 figurative of calamity Isaiah 8:22 ("" חֲשֵׁכָה), Isaiah 58:10 ("" חשׁך, opposed to צהרים ), Isaiah 59:9 ("" id., opposed to נגהות)



Strong's
dark, darkness, gloominess, thick

Feminine of 'aphel; duskiness, figuratively, misfortune; concrete, concealment -- dark, darkness, gloominess, X thick.

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