Miscarriage
נֵ֫פֶלStrong’s H5309nephel (ne-phel)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nephel is the Hebrew word usually translated “like a miscarriage”, “miscarriage of” and “miscarriage”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.”
Meaning
- Untimely birth, abortion, miscarriage
How it's translated
- like a miscarriage 1
- a miscarriage of 1
- the miscarriage 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 58:8As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Hebrew dictionary
נֵ֫פֶל nephel · miscarriage
untimely birth, abortion, miscarriage
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “miscarriage” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MISCAR'RIAGE, noun
Unfortunate event of an undertaking; failure.
- Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior; as the failings and miscarriages of the righteous.
- Abortion; the act of bringing forth before the time.
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.