Biblica Analytica
H0653 Hebrew

אֲפֵלָה

a.phe.lah

darkness

Lexicon Entry

Definition
darkness
Transliteration
a.phe.lah
Strong's Number
H0653
Occurrences
10

Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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Strong's
H0653
Lemma
אֲפֵלָה
Transliteration
a.phe.lah
Definition
darkness
Occurrences
10
Model
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Occurrences in Scripture

10 total occurrences across the text

Exodus 10:22

Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

Deuteronomy 28:29

You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

Proverbs 7:9

in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

Isaiah 8:22

and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

Isaiah 58:10

and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;

Isaiah 59:9

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

Jeremiah 23:12

Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.

Joel 2:2

A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

Zephaniah 1:15

That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,