Nephel נֵ֫פֶל

Nephel (Hebrew נֵ֫פֶל, Strong's H5309) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “miscarriage”. It occurs 3 times in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Nephel, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Job

• Job 3:16
  Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?

Psalms

• Psalm 58:8
  As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.

Ecclesiastes

• Ecclesiastes 6:3
  If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).