Gloom
מָעוּףStrong’s H4588mauph (ma-uph)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Mauph is the Hebrew word usually translated “gloom of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.”
Meaning
- Gloom
How it's translated
- gloom of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מָעוּף mauph · gloom
gloom
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.