STRONGS NUMBER H653


Word Summary
aphelah: darkness, gloominess, calamity
Original Word: אֲפֵלָה
Transliteration: aphelah
Phonetic Spelling: (af-ay-law')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: darkness, gloominess, calamity
Meaning: duskiness, misfortune, concealment
Strong's Concordance
dark, darkness, gloominess, thick

Feminine of 'aphel; duskiness, figuratively, misfortune; concrete, concealment -- dark, darkness, gloominess, X thick.

see HEBREW 'aphel

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H653. aphelah

אֲפֵלָהnoun feminine darkness, gloominess, calamity׳אExodus 10:22 +; אֲפֵלָתְךָIsaiah 58:10; plural אֲפֵלוֺת59:9

1 darkness Deuteronomy 28:29; Proverbs 7:9 ("" לַיְלָה אִישׁוֺן‎); of supernatural darkness in Egypt Exodus 10:22; of day of .׳י‎ (compare Amos 5:20 below אָפֵל‎) Joel 2:2; Zephaniah 1:15 (both "" רְפל ענן, חשׁך‎) simile of wickedness Jeremiah 23:18; Proverbs 4:19.

2 figurative of calamity Isaiah 8:22 ("" חֲשֵׁכָה‎), 58:10 ("" חשׁך‎, opposed to צהרים‎ ), 59:9 ("" id., opposed to נגהות‎)