Late
אָפִילStrong’s H0648aphil (a-phil)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Aphil is the Hebrew word usually translated “late”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.”
Meaning
- Late, ripe
How it's translated
- late 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
אָפִיל aphil · late
late, ripe
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “late” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LATE, adjective
[This word is from the root of let, the sense of which is to draw out, extend or prolong, hence to be slow or late See Let. This adjective has regular terminations of the comparative and superlative degrees, later, latest, but it has also latter, and latest is often contracted into last.]
- Coming after the usual time; slow; tardy; long delayed; as a late spring; a late summer.
- Far advanced towards the end or close; as a late hour of the day.
- Last, or recently in any place, office or character; as the late ministry; the late administration.
- Existing not long ago, but now decayed or departed; as the late bishop of London.
All definitions and other forms of “late”
- Not long past; happening not long ago; recent; as the late rains.
LATE, adverb
- After the usual time, or the time appointed; after delay; as, he arrived late
- After the proper or usual season.
- Not long ago; lately.
- Far in the night, day, week, or other particular period; as, to lie a-bed late; to sit up late at night.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.