Gloom
אָפֵלStrong’s H0651aphel (a-phel)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Aphel is the Hebrew word usually translated “gloomy”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?”
Meaning
- Gloomy, dark
How it's translated
- and gloomy 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Amos 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
אָפֵל aphel · gloom
gloomy, dark
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “gloom” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GLOOM, noun
- Obscurity; partial or total darkness; thick shade; as the gloom of a forest, or the gloom of midnight.
- Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow.
- Darkness of prospect or aspect.
- Sullenness.
All definitions and other forms of “gloom”
GLOOM, verb intransitive
To shine obscurely or imperfectly.
- To be cloudy, dark or obscure.
- To be melancholy or dejected.
GLOOM, verb transitive
To obscure; to fill with gloom; to darken; to make dismal.
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.