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 · אֹ֥פֶלAs for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.Job 10:22 · אֹ֗פֶל · אֹֽפֶל׃ פthe land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’”Job 23:17 · אֹֽפֶל׃Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.Job 28:3 · אֹ֣פֶלMan sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.Job 30:26 · אֹֽפֶל׃When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.Psalm 11:2 · אֹ֝֗פֶלFor, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.Psalm 91:6 · בָּאֹ֣פֶלnor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.Isaiah 29:18 · וּמֵאֹ֣פֶלIn that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.