אֹפֶל
ofel · gloom, thick darkness
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H652 · appears 9 times in the Bible
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ofel (אֹפֶל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “gloom, thick darkness”.
Like that of deep night. It is a different word from ordinary "darkness."
How to say it
o·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 blackness; also that of calamity.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- gloom ×8
- darkness ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 3:6
That night, let gloom take it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; into the number of the months let it not come.
- Job 10:22
a land of blackness like gloom, of shadow of death and without order, and it shines forth like gloom.”
- Job 23:17
For I have not vanished before darkness, though gloom covers my face.
- Job 28:3
He sets an end to darkness, and to every limit he searches out the stone of gloom and of the shadow of death.
- Job 30:26
For I hoped for good, and evil came; and I waited for light, and gloom came.
- Psalms 11:2
For look, the wicked bend the bow; they have made ready their arrow on the string to shoot in the darkness at the upright in heart.
- Psalms 91:6
nor the pestilence that walks in the gloom, nor the destruction that ravages at noon.
- Isaiah 29:18
And on that day the deaf will hear the words of a book, and out of gloom and out of darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
And 1 more times.