עֵיפָה
efa · darkness
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5890 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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efa (עֵיפָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “darkness”.
Blackness, thick darkness, like that of something covered.
How to say it
e·fa
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
- Thick gloom, without any light.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- blackness ×1
- darkness ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 10:22
a land of blackness like gloom, of shadow of death and without order, and it shines forth like gloom.”
- Amos 4:13
For look, the one who forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to human beings what his thought is, who makes the dawn darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth: YHWH, Elohim Tsevaot, is his name.