H653 אֲפֵלָה
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 10 KJV occurrences
אֲפֵלָה
ʼăphêlâh · af-ay-law'
Definition
duskiness, figuratively, misfortune; concrete, concealment
KJV Renderings
dark, darkness, gloominess, [idiom] thick.
Derivation / Etymology
feminine of H651 (אָפֵל);
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 10)
- Exodus 10:22And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
- Deuteronomy 28:29And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
- Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
- Proverbs 7:9In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
- Isaiah 58:10And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:
- Isaiah 59:9¶ Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
- Jeremiah 23:12Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
- Joel 2:2A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.