עֵיפָה
ʻêyphâh · H5890 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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darkness
State of absence of daylight; associated with death
ExamplesAmos 4:13 For behold, He who forms mountains and creates the wind, And declares to a person what are His thoughts, He who makes dawn into darkness And treads on the high places of the earth, The LORD God of armies is His name.
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land of only darkness > world of the dead
Literally: the land whose darkness is gloom, i.e. a reference to the world of the dead
ExamplesJob 10:22 The land of utter gloom like darkness itself, Of deep shadow without order, And it shines like darkness.”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 5 words
- אֲפֵלָה ʼăphêlâh · H653 · deep darkness
- Both words denote darkness, different words with overlapping sense of darkness that could substitute for each other in context.
- עֲרָפֶל ʻărâphel · H6205 · thick clouds, darkness
- עֲרָפֶל (“gross, thick dark cloud, darkness”) denotes an intensified, often cloud-associated form of darkness, while עֵיפָה (ʻêyphâh, H5890) is simply “darkness”; they refer to overlapping notions of darkness, with עֲרָפֶל carrying an additional nuance of thickness or cloud association.
- אֹפֶל ʼôphel · H652 · deep darkness
- Both words refer to darkness itself.
- אָפֵל ʼâphêl · H651 · totally dark
- עֵיפָה (ʻêyphâh, H5890) and אָפֵל both denote darkness or the quality of being dark, the same sensory notion of lacking light.
- חֹשֶׁךְ chôshek · H2822 · darkness
- Both words denote darkness. חֹשֶׁךְ (chôshek, H2822) is the common word for darkness, while עֵיפָה (ʻêyphâh, H5890) is rendered identically as "darkness" but is much rarer, and they could substitute for each other in sense.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Dark002001001017
- עֵיפָה denotes darkness or gloom, as in Job 10:22's "land of utter gloom like darkness itself" and Amos 4:13's God "who makes dawn into darkness."
- Regions Under the Earth001003
- This domain reflects the word's association with the deep, shadowy realm evoked by Job 10:22's "deep shadow without order," part of its broader range beyond the two citations shown here.
- Names of People003001007
- This lexeme's genuine tagged occurrences (Job 10:22, "the land of utter gloom like darkness itself"; Amos 4:13, "He who makes dawn into darkness") both illustrate the common noun "darkness," not a personal name; this Names of People domain code is bundle-shared from a cognate root shared with personal names of similar spelling and carries no tagged occurrence of עֵיפָה (ʻêyphâh, H5890) independently attesting a proper-name sense.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5890. ephah I. עֵיפָה noun feminine darkness; — עֵיפָה שַׁחַר עשֵֹׁה Amo 4:13; עֵפָ֫תָה…
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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