מַאְפֵלְיָה
maʼphêlᵉyâh · H3991 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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darkness
State of total absence of light; associated with difficult circumstances
ExamplesJeremiah 2:31 “You generation, look to the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, Or a land of thick darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; We will no longer come to You’?
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 1
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Near synonyms 1 word
- חֹשֶׁךְ chôshek · H2822 · darkness
- Both words denote darkness or obscurity with highly overlapping senses; both are nouns denoting the same phenomenon.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Dark002001001017
- מַאְפֵלְיָה is an intensified form meaning deep darkness, as in Jeremiah 23:12's "darkness in the gloom," placing it among terms for a state of thick darkness.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3991. maapheleyah מַאְמֵּלְיָה noun feminine deep darkness (= יָהּ מַאֲפֵל according to…
מַאְמֵּלְיָה noun feminine deep darkness (= יָהּ מַאֲפֵל according to Thes MV compare Son 8:6 שַׁלְהֶבֶתְיָה; but Ew§ 165 b & on Jer 2:31 reads מַאְמִּלִיָה feminine of [מאפלי], derived from Hiph`il Participle; compare Sta§ 302 b מַאְמְּלִיָּה; JägerBAS 471 thinks this יָה an enclitic particle of emphasis, & compare Assyrian) — only מ ׳אֶרֶץ Jer 2:31 figurative of ׳י in dealing with his people (|| מִרְבָּר).
אֶפְלָל see below פלל . p. 813.
אפן (meaning dubious, perhaps turn, compare פנה)
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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