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Hebrew verb · H6075

עָפַל

aphalaw-fal'

to swell; to presume

2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʻâphal

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6075is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 2
    spellings
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6075

to swell; figuratively, be elated

The King James renders it: be lifted up, presume.

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

aphal is rendered "to swell; to presume". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.

  • One of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to swell".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 14:44But they dared to go up to the ridge of the hill country, though neither Moses nor the ark of the covenant of the LORD moved from the camp.
  • The Greek text spells it two different ways.

The first use

But they dared to go up to the ridge of the hill country, though neither Moses nor the ark of the covenant of the LORD moved from the camp.

Numbers 14:44וַיַּעְפִּ֕לוּ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

One of the word's two uses is in Numbers.

The other 37 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to swell, and to presume.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
to swellStrong's entry ATagged aslisted under the tableWhereNumbers 14:44But they dared to go up to the ridge of the hill country…
to presumeStrong's entry BTagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and they presumed1
  • it is swollen1

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.

עָפַרapharto throwUses1

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

  • וַיַּעְפִּ֕לוּ1
  • עֻפְּלָ֔ה1

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vhw3mp1Hc/Vhw3mp
  • verb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVPp3fs

Numbers

one use
  • But they dared to go up to the ridge of the hill country, though neither Moses nor the ark of the covenant of the LORD moved from the camp.

    Numbers 14:44

    • וַיַּעְפִּ֕לוּvaiya'piluHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they presumed

Habakkuk

one use
  • Look at the proud one; his soul is not upright—but the righteous will live by faith—

    Habakkuk 2:4

    • עֻפְּלָ֔הʾupelahverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is swollen

The letters

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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