afela · thick darkness

What it means

afela (אֲפֵלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “thick darkness”.

Very thick darkness.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Total lack of light; or a calamity.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• darkness ×5
• gloom ×4
• thick ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×1
• Joel×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Exodus 10:22

  So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

• Deuteronomy 28:29

  And you will be groping at noon, as the blind man gropes in the darkness, and you will not prosper your ways; and you will be only oppressed and robbed all the days, and there will be no one to save you.

• Proverbs 4:19

  The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble.

• Proverbs 7:9

  in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and deep darkness.

• Isaiah 8:22

  And he will look to the earth, and look, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and into thick darkness he will be thrust.

• Isaiah 58:10

  and if you offer your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your gloom will be like noon.

• Isaiah 59:9

  Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us; we wait for light, and look, darkness; for brightness, but in gloom we walk.

• Jeremiah 23:12

  Therefore their way will be to them like slippery places in the darkness; they will be driven on and fall in it; for I will bring evil upon them, the year of their punishment, declares YHWH.

• Joel 2:2

  a day of darkness and gloom, a day of cloud and thick darkness; like the dawn spread over the mountains, a people great and mighty; its like has never been from of old, and after it there will not be again, to the years of generation after generation.

• Zephaniah 1:15

  A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and straits, a day of devastation and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of cloud and thick cloud,