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# אָפֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H651

**gloomy** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

gloomy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/651/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָפֵל: adj. gloomy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/651/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. gloomy, of day of י׳ Am 5:20 (‖ חשׁך, opp. נֹגַהּ) cf. אֲפֵלָה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: gloomy (1).

## In the verses

[Amos 5:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.5.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.5.20/#tree)

הֲלֹא־חֹ֛שֶׁךְ י֥וֹם יְהוָ֖ה וְלֹא־א֑וֹר וְאָפֵ֖ל וְלֹא־נֹ֥גַֽהּ לֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* ? not \[be\].darkness \[will\].the.day of.Yahweh and not light and gloomy and not brightness \[will belong\].to.it

*JPS 1917:* Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/651.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/651/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).