1) darkness, gloom 2) spiritual unreceptivity, calamity (fig.)
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H652 — אֹ֫פֶל
o.phel · darkness · Hebrew/Aramaic
8 tagged verse occurrences
Job 3:6 · אֹ֥פֶלIf only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.Job 10:22 · אֹ֗פֶל · אֹֽפֶל׃ פto a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”Job 23:17 · אֹֽפֶל׃Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.Job 28:3 · אֹ֣פֶלMan puts an end to the darkness; he probes the farthest recesses for ore in deepest darkness.Job 30:26 · אֹֽפֶל׃But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.Psalm 11:2 · אֹ֝֗פֶלFor behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.Psalm 91:6 · בָּאֹ֣פֶלnor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the calamity that destroys at noon.Isaiah 29:18 · וּמֵאֹ֣פֶלOn that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.