אָפֵל
ʼâphêl · H651 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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totally dark
State of total absence of light; associated with distress and suffering
ExamplesAmos 5:20 Will the day of the LORD not be darkness instead of light, Even gloom with no brightness in it?
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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Near synonyms 3 words
- עֵיפָה ʻêyphâh · H5890 · darkness, land of only darkness > world of the dead
- The target lexeme and עֵיפָה both denote darkness, or the quality of being dark, and are near-synonyms sharing this sense.
- כִּמְרִיר kimrîyr · H3650 · darkness, blackness
- The target lexeme and מְרִירִי both denote darkness or blackness, functioning as near-synonyms describing this quality.
- חֹשֶׁךְ chôshek · H2822 · darkness
- Both words denote darkness or obscurity with overlapping sense; אָפֵל (ʼâphêl, H651) ("very dark") intensifies the basic concept that חֹשֶׁךְ (chôshek, H2822) ("darkness") expresses.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Dark002001001017
- אָפֵל describes something very dark or gloomy, as the day of the LORD pictured as darkness with no brightness in it.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H651. aphel אָפֵל adj. gloomy, of day of ׳י Amo 5:20 (|| כשׁך opp נֹגַהּ) compareאֲפֵלָה .
אָפֵל adj. gloomy, of day of ׳י Amo 5:20 (|| כשׁך opp נֹגַהּ) compareאֲפֵלָה .
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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