Darkness
אֹ֫פֶלStrong’s H0652ophel (o-phel)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ophel is the Hebrew word usually translated “darkness”, “gloom” and “gloom of”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.”
Meaning
- Darkness, gloom
- Spiritual unreceptivity, calamity (fig.)
How it's translated
- darkness 3
- gloom 3
- gloom of 1
- in the darkness 1
- and from gloom 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 5
- Psalms 2
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 10:22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
- Job 23:17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
- Job 28:3He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
- Job 30:26When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
- Psalms 11:2For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
- Psalms 91:6Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Hebrew dictionary
אֹ֫פֶל ophel · darkness
1) darkness, gloom 2) spiritual unreceptivity, calamity (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “darkness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
D'ARKNESS, noun
- Absence of light.“And darkness was on the face of the deep” Genesis 1:2
- Obscurity; want of clearness or perspicuity; that quality or state which renders any thing difficult to be understood; as the darkness of counsels.
- A state of being intellectually clouded; ignorance.“Men loved darkness rather than light” John 3:19
- A private place; secrecy; privacy.“What I tell in darkness that speak ye in light” Matthew 10:27
All definitions
- Infernal gloom; hell; as utter darkness Matthew 22:13
- Great trouble and distress; calamities; perplexities.“A day of clouds and thick darkness Is” Joel 2:2
- Empire of Satan.“Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness” Colossians 1:13
- Opakeness.
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.