נֶפֶל
nefel · stillborn child
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5309 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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nefel (נֶפֶל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “stillborn child”.
A stillborn child: a child born before its time and without life.
How to say it
ne·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
- A child born dead before its time.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Where it appears
- Job 3:16
Or like a stillborn child hidden I would not be, like infants who did not see light.
- Psalms 58:8
Like a snail that melts away as it goes, like the stillborn of a woman, let them not see the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man fathers a hundred and lives many years, and many are the days of his years, but his soul is not satisfied with good, and also he has had no burial, I say, better than he is the stillborn.