Hebrew noun (masculine) · H652
אֹפֶל
ophelo'fel
darkness
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼôphel
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H652is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H652
dusk
The King James renders it: darkness, obscurity, privily.
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
ophel is rendered "darkness". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Six of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 3:6If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.
Job 3:6אֹ֥פֶל
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
- darkness3
- gloom3
- and from gloom1
- gloom of1
- in the 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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֹפֶן | ophen | (right) time | Uses1 |
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- אֹֽפֶל׃2
- אֹ֝֗פֶל1
- אֹ֥פֶל1
- אֹ֗פֶל1
- אֹ֣פֶל1
- אֹֽפֶל׃ פ1
- בָּאֹ֣פֶל1
- וּמֵאֹ֣פֶל1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular6HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
Job
six uses
If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.
- אֹ֥פֶלʾofelnoun · masculine singulartagged: darkness
to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
- אֹ֗פֶלʾofelnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: gloom of
- אֹֽפֶל׃ פʾofelnoun · masculine singulartagged: gloom
Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.
- אֹֽפֶל׃ʾofelnoun · masculine singulartagged: gloom
Man puts an end to the darkness; he probes the farthest recesses for ore in deepest darkness.
- אֹ֣פֶלʾofelnoun · masculine singulartagged: gloom
But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
- אֹֽפֶל׃ʾofelnoun · masculine singulartagged: darkness
Psalms
two uses
For behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.
- אֹ֝֗פֶלʾofelnoun · masculine singulartagged: darkness
nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the calamity that destroys at noon.
- בָּאֹ֣פֶלbaofelpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the darkness
Isaiah
one use
On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
- וּמֵאֹ֣פֶלumeofelconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and from gloom
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.