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# מַאְפֵּלְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3991

**deep darkness** — 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

deep darkness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3991/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַאְפֵּלְיָה: n.f. deep darkness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3991/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. deep darkness ( = מַאֲפֵל יָהּ according to Thes MV cf. Ct 8:6 שַׁלְהֶבֶתְיָה; but Ew§ 165 b & on Je 2:31 reads מַאְפִּלִיָּה, fem. of \[מאפלי\], der. from Hiph. Pt.; cf. Sta§ 302 b מַאְפְּלִיָּה; JägerBAS 471 thinks this יָה an enclitic part. of emphasis, & comp. Assyrian)—only אֶרֶץ מ׳ Je 2:31 fig. of י׳ in dealing with his people (‖ מִדְבָּר).

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 2:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.31/#tree)

הַדּ֗וֹר אַתֶּם֙ רְא֣וּ דְבַר־יְהוָ֔ה הֲמִדְבָּ֤ר הָיִ֙יתִי֙ לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אִ֛ם אֶ֥רֶץ מַאְפֵּ֖לְיָ֑ה מַדּ֜וּעַ אָמְר֤וּ עַמִּי֙ רַ֔דְנוּ לֽוֹא־נָב֥וֹא ע֖וֹד אֵלֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* O generation you consider the.word of.Yahweh a wilderness? have.I.been to Israel or? a.land of.darkness why? have.they.said people my we.have.roamed.freely not we.will.come again to you

*JPS 1917:* O generation, see ye the word of the LORD: have I been a wilderness unto Israel? or a land of thick darkness? Wherefore say My people: 'We roam at large; we will come no more unto Thee'?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3991.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3991/): 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).