Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6205
עֲרָפֶל
araphelar-aw-fel'
cloud
15 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻărâphel
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6205is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6205
gloom (as of a lowering sky)
The King James renders it: (gross, thick) dark (cloud, -ness).
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
araphel is rendered "cloud". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.
- Two of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 20:21And the people stood at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
And the people stood at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.
Exodus 20:21הָֽעֲרָפֶ֔ל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in twelve of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and thick darkness9
- in the thick darkness2
- and the thick darkness1
- into thick darkness1
- the thick darkness1
- thick darkness1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 15, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 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
- וַעֲרָפֶֽל׃3
- בָּעֲרָפֶֽל׃2
- וַ֝עֲרָפֶ֗ל2
- וַעֲרָפֶ֖ל2
- הָֽעֲרָפֶ֔ל1
- וְהָֽעֲרָפֶ֔ל1
- וַעֲרָפֶ֣ל1
- וַעֲרָפֶ֔ל1
- לַעֲרָפֶֽל׃1
- עֲרָפֶ֣ל1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular9HC/Ncmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HRd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Td/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Exodus
one use
And the people stood at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.
- הָֽעֲרָפֶ֔לhaarafelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the thick darkness
Deuteronomy
two uses
You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.
- וַעֲרָפֶֽל׃vaarafelconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and thick darkness
The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
- וְהָֽעֲרָפֶ֔לvehaarafelconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the thick darkness
2 Samuel
one use
He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.
- וַעֲרָפֶ֖לvaarafelconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and thick darkness
1 Kings
one use
Then Solomon declared: “The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud.
- בָּעֲרָפֶֽל׃baarafelpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the thick darkness
2 Chronicles
one use
Then Solomon declared: “The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud;
- בָּעֲרָפֶֽל׃baarafelpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the thick darkness
Job
two uses
Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?
- עֲרָפֶ֣לʾarafelnoun · masculine singulartagged: thick darkness
when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,
- וַ֝עֲרָפֶ֗לvaarafelconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and thick darkness
Psalms
two uses
He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.
- וַ֝עֲרָפֶ֗לvaarafelconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and thick darkness
Clouds and darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are His throne’s foundation.
- וַעֲרָפֶ֣לvaarafelconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and thick darkness
Isaiah
one use
For behold, darkness covers the earth, and thick darkness is over the peoples; but the LORD will rise upon you, and His glory will appear over you.
- וַעֲרָפֶ֖לvaarafelconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and thick darkness
Jeremiah
one use
Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
- לַעֲרָפֶֽל׃laarafelpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into thick darkness
Ezekiel
one use
As a shepherd looks for his scattered sheep when he is among the flock, so I will look for My flock. I will rescue them from all the places to which they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.
- וַעֲרָפֶֽל׃vaarafelconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and thick darkness
Joel
one use
a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.
- וַעֲרָפֶ֔לvaarafelconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and thick darkness
Zephaniah
one use
That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
- וַעֲרָפֶֽל׃vaarafelconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and thick 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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.