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# עָפַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6075

**swell** — 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

swell [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6075/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָפַל: vb. swell [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6075/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. swell (?; so Thes; inferred from deriv.; Arabic عَفَلٌ is a tumour in the vulva or anus, عَفِلَ appar. denom. (cf. ii. עֹפֶל) v. Assyrian uplu, prob. tumour (DlHWB 7 ublu, but v. JenTh Lz 1895, 250));— Pf. 3 fs. עֻפְּלָה Hb 2:4 according to MT (subj. נַפְשׁוֹ, cf. GASm); but subst. needed, BrdSK 1889, 121 הַנֶּעֱלָף, We Now הָעַוָּל, cf. GuKau.— v. II. עפל.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it is swollen (1); they presumed (1).

## In the verses

[Habakkuk 2:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.4/#tree)

הִנֵּ֣ה עֻפְּלָ֔ה לֹא־יָשְׁרָ֥ה נַפְשׁ֖וֹ בּ֑וֹ וְצַדִּ֖יק בֶּאֱמוּנָת֥וֹ יִחְיֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* there! it.is.swollen not it.is.upright self his in him and.\[the\] righteous by faithfulness his he.will.live

*JPS 1917:* Behold, his soul is puffed up, it is not upright in him; but the righteous shall live by his faith.

[Numbers 14:44](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.14.44/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.14.44/#tree)

וַיַּעְפִּ֕לוּ לַעֲל֖וֹת אֶל־רֹ֣אשׁ הָהָ֑ר וַאֲר֤וֹן בְּרִית־יְהוָה֙ וּמֹשֶׁ֔ה לֹא־מָ֖שׁוּ מִקֶּ֥רֶב הַֽמַּחֲנֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.presumed to go.up to the.top of the.hill.country and the.ark of.the.covenant of.Yahweh and Moses not they.departed from the.midst of the.camp

*JPS 1917:* But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain; nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6075.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6075/): 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).