Hebrew noun (feminine) · H5890
עֵיפָה
ephahay-faw'
darkness
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻêyphâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5890is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5890
obscurity (as if from covering)
The King James renders it: darkness.
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
ephah is rendered "darkness". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two 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 10:22to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
Job 10:22עֵיפָ֨תָה׀
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- darkness2
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.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- עֵיפָ֔ה1
- עֵיפָ֨תָה׀1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular2HNcfsa
Job
one use
to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
- עֵיפָ֨תָה׀ʾeifatahnoun · feminine singulartagged: darkness
Amos
one use
For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
- עֵיפָ֔הʾeifahnoun · feminine singulartagged: darkness
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.