Midvash

אֹפֶלʼôphel

darkness, gloom

Pronunciation: o'fel · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H652

Meanings

1. darkness (Psalms 91:6; Job 28:3; Job 10:22)

2. especially figurative of calamity (Job 23:17; Job 30:26)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 9 times in the Bible.

  • Job 3:6 Let that night be blotted off the calendar, never again to be counted among the days of the year, never again to appear among the months.
  • Job 10:22 It is a land as dark as midnight, a land of gloom and confusion, where even the light is dark as midnight.’”
  • Job 23:17 Darkness is all around me; thick, impenetrable darkness is everywhere.
  • Job 28:3 They know how to shine light in the darkness and explore the farthest regions of the earth as they search in the dark for ore.
  • Job 30:26 So I looked for good, but evil came instead. I waited for the light, but darkness fell.
  • Psalms 11:2 The wicked are stringing their bows and fitting their arrows on the bowstrings. They shoot from the shadows at those whose hearts are right.
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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).