Cloud
עֲרָפֶלStrong’s H6205araphel (a-ra-phel)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Araphel is the Hebrew word usually translated “thick darkness” and “into thick darkness”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.”
Meaning
- Cloud, heavy or dark cloud, darkness, gross darkness, thick darkness
How it's translated
- and thick darkness 9
- in thick darkness 2
- the thick darkness 1
- and the thick darkness 1
- thick darkness 1
- into thick darkness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 2
- Job 2
- Psalms 2
- Exodus 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- 1 Kings 1
12 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 4:11And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
- Deuteronomy 5:22These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
- 2 Samuel 22:10He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.
- 1 Kings 8:12Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
- 2 Chronicles 6:1Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
- Job 22:13And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
Hebrew dictionary
עֲרָפֶל araphel · cloud
cloud, heavy or dark cloud, darkness, gross darkness, thick darkness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cloud” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CLOUD, noun
[I have not found this word in any other language. The sense is obvious--a collection.]
- A collection f visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the atmosphere, at some altitude.“I do set my bow in the cloud” Genesis 9:13“Behold, a white cloud” Revelation 14:14
- A state of obscurity or darkness.
- A collection of smoke, or a dense collection of dust, rising or floating in the air; as a cloud of dust.
- The dark or varied colors, in veins or spots, on stones or other bodies, are called clouds.
All definitions and other forms of “cloud”
- A great multitude; a vast collection.“Seeing we are encompassed with so great a cloud of witnesses” Hebrews 12:1
CLOUD, verb transitive
To overspread with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded; clouds intercept the rays of the sun. Hence,
- To obscure; to darken; as, to cloud the day, or truth, or reason.
- To darken in veins or spots; to variegate with colors; as clouded marble.
- To make of a gloomy aspect; to give the appearance of sullenness.
- To sully; to tarnish.
CLOUD, verb intransitive
To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; sometimes followed by over; as, the sky clouds over.
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.