אֹפֶל ʼôphel

Meaning

dusk

In the King James Version: darkness, obscurity, privily.

Derivation: from the same as H651 (אָפֵל);

Where it is used

• Job 3:6 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 10:22 to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
• Job 23:17 Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.
• Job 28:3 Man puts an end to the darkness; he probes the farthest recesses for ore in deepest darkness.
• Job 30:26 But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
• Psalms 11:2 For behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.
• Psalms 91:6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the calamity that destroys at noon.
• Isaiah 29:18 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.