Ophel אֹ֫פֶל
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| אֹ֫פֶל | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | ophel |
| Strong's number | H652 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | masculine noun |
| Gloss | darkness |
| Occurrences | 9 in 8 verses |
| Most frequent in | Job (5) |
Ophel (Hebrew אֹ֫פֶל, Strong's H652) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “darkness”. It occurs 9 times in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
1) darkness, gloom
2) spiritual unreceptivity, calamity (fig.)
2) spiritual unreceptivity, calamity (fig.)
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | darkness (7), privily (1), obscurity (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | darkness (3), if only darkness (1), thick darkness (1), deepest darkness (1), shadows (1), out (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Ophel, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Job
- Job 3:6As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.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 10:22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
- Job 23:17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.
- Job 28:3He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.Man puts an end to the darkness; he probes the farthest recesses for ore in deepest darkness.
- Job 30:26When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
Psalms
- Psalm 11:2For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.For behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.
- Psalm 91:6Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the calamity that destroys at noon.
Isaiah
- Isaiah 29:18And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.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.
Notes
- 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.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).