H653 - אֲפֵלָה (ʼăphêlâh)

H653 אֲפֵלָה (ʼăphêlâh) af-ay-law'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

darkness

Strong's Definition

duskiness, figuratively, misfortune; concrete, concealment

Derivation: feminine of H651 (אָפֵל);

KJV Usage: dark, darkness, gloominess, [idiom] thick.

TWOT Reference: 145c

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) darkness, gloominess, calamity

2) wickedness (fig.)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G4652

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) darkness, gloominess, calamity 2) wickedness (fig.)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

אֲפֵלָה ăphêlâh BDB Definition: 1) darkness, gloominess, calamity 2) wickedness (figuratively) Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H651 Same Word by TWOT Number: 145c Total KJV Occurrences: 10

Bible Occurrences (10)

10:22

28:29

4:19 7:9

8:22 58:10 59:9

23:12

2:2

1:15

Exodus 10:22

So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and total darkness covered all the land of Egypt for three days.

Deuteronomy 28:29

and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered..., with no one to save you.

Proverbs 4:19

But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.

Proverbs 7:9

at twilight, as the day was fading... into the dark of the night....

Isaiah 8:22

Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.

Isaiah 58:10

and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.

Isaiah 59:9

Therefore... justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, [but] we walk in gloom.

Jeremiah 23:12

Therefore their path... will become slick; they will be driven away into the darkness and fall into it. For I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment, declares the LORD.