מַאֲפֵל
maafel · darkness
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3990 · appears 1 time in the Bible
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maafel (מַאֲפֵל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “darkness”.
Thick dark.
How to say it
ma·a·fel
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 that separates.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Joshua 24:7
And they cried out to YHWH, and he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and it covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness many days.