Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5309
נֶפֶל
nephelneh'-fel
miscarriage
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5309is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5309
something fallen, i.e. an abortion
The King James renders it: untimely birth.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
nephel is rendered "miscarriage". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 3:16Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
Job 3:16כְנֵ֣פֶל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's three uses is in Job.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a miscarriage of1
- like a miscarriage1
- the miscarriage1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַנָּֽפֶל׃1
- כְנֵ֣פֶל1
- נֵ֥פֶל1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Job
one use
Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
- כְנֵ֣פֶלkhenefelpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like a miscarriage
Psalms
one use
Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
- נֵ֥פֶלnefelnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a miscarriage of
Ecclesiastes
one use
A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
- הַנָּֽפֶל׃hanafelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the miscarriage
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.