עָפַלʻâphal

עָפַל: swell

Pronunciation: aw-fal' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6075

Meanings

Hiph`il: see II. עפל. below

עָפַל: perhaps be heedless

Hiph`il: shew heedlessness (Numbers 14:44)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • Numbers 14:44 But the people defiantly pushed ahead toward the hill country, even though neither Moses nor the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant left the camp.
  • Habakkuk 2:4 “Look at the proud! They trust in themselves, and their lives are crooked. But the righteous will live by their faithfulness to God.

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).