אֲפֵר
ʼăphêr · H666 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Thing
- BandageDoctors and medicine4 verses
Meanings
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band, bandage, cloth
Exact meaning unknown; probably: strip of cloth
Examples1 Kings 20:38 So the prophet departed and waited for the king by the road, and disguised himself with a bandage over his eyes.
1 Kings 20:41 Then he quickly took the bandage away from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him, that he was one of the prophets.
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
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- סוּרto turn aside, to depart, to remove 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
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 1 word
- דֶּשֶׁן deshen · H1880 · fatness, fat ashes
- Both refer to ashes, but דֶּשֶׁן specifically denotes the fatty ashes from altar sacrifices (Lev 1:16, 4:12), whereas אֲפֵר is the more general term for ashes from any fire or burning
In the other Testament 1 word
- σποδός spodós · G4700 · ashes
- Standard Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew 'ashes' (אֲפֵר); both refer to the residue from fire/burning, used in mourning rituals and symbolic contexts
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Clothing001003001001002
- אֲפֵר shares the gloss "ashes" in some lexicons, but this entry's own citations show it naming a bandage or covering placed over the eyes, as the prophet's disguise before King Ahab.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H666. apher אֲפֵר noun [masculine] covering, bandage (Assyrian ipru, covering ZimBP 95,…
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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