נֶפֶלnephel
untimely birth, abortion (Job 3:16; Ecclesiastes 6:3; Psalms 58:9)
Pronunciation: neh'-fel · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5309
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Job 3:16 Why wasn’t I buried like a stillborn child, like a baby who never lives to see the light?
- Psalms 58:8 May they be like snails that dissolve into slime, like a stillborn child who will never see the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3 A man might have a hundred children and live to be very old. But if he finds no satisfaction in life and doesn’t even get a decent burial, it would have been better for him to be born dead.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).