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# עֵיפָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5890

**darkness** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

darkness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5890/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֵיפָה: n.f. darkness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5890/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. darkness;—עֹשֵׂה שַׁחַר עֵיפָה Am 4:13; אֶרֶץ עֵפָ֫תָה Jb 10:22 (Ges§ 90 g; ‖ צַלְמָוֶת).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: darkness (2).

## In the verses

[Job 10:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.10.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.10.22/#tree)

אֶ֤רֶץ עֵיפָ֨תָה ׀ כְּמ֥וֹ אֹ֗פֶל צַ֭לְמָוֶת וְלֹ֥א סְדָרִ֗ים וַתֹּ֥פַע כְּמוֹ־אֹֽפֶל׃פ

*Word for word:* \[the\].land darkness of like gloom of.deep.darkness and not order(s) and.\[where\] it.shone.forth like gloom

*JPS 1917:* A land of thick darkness, as darkness itself; a land of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

[Amos 4:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.4.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.4.13/#tree)

כִּ֡י הִנֵּה֩ יוֹצֵ֨ר הָרִ֜ים וּבֹרֵ֣א ר֗וּחַ וּמַגִּ֤יד לְאָדָם֙ מַה־שֵּׂח֔וֹ עֹשֵׂ֥ה שַׁ֙חַר֙ עֵיפָ֔ה וְדֹרֵ֖ךְ עַל־בָּ֣מֳתֵי אָ֑רֶץ יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵֽי־צְבָא֖וֹת שְׁמֽוֹ׃ס

*Word for word:* (dm) here! \[one.who\].formed mountains and \[one.who\].created wind and \[one.who\].tells to humankind what? thought \[is\].his \[one.who\].makes (of).dawn darkness and \[one.who\].treads on \[the\].high.places of.\[the\].earth \[is\].Yahweh God of.hosts name his

*JPS 1917:* For, lo, He that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth; the LORD, the God of hosts, is His name.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5890.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5890/): 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).