Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H653
אֲפֵלָה
a.phe.lah · “darkness”
Used 10 times across 7 books
Definition
1) darkness, gloominess, calamity
2) wickedness (fig.)
2) wickedness (fig.)
Where it appears
Exodus1
Deuteronomy1
Proverbs2
Isaiah3
Jeremiah1
Joel1
Zephaniah1
In the text
Exodus 10:22And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:Deuteronomy 28:29And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.Proverbs 7:9In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:Isaiah 8:22And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.Isaiah 58:10And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:Isaiah 59:9Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.Jeremiah 23:12Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.Joel 2:2A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.Zephaniah 1:15That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
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