Strong's #6205: `araphel (pronounced ar-aw-fel')

probably from 6201; gloom (as of a lowering sky):--(gross, thick) dark (cloud, -ness).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛ărâphel

1) cloud, heavy or dark cloud, darkness, gross darkness, thick darkness

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: probably from H6201

Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

 

Exodus 20:21: "afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God"
Deuteronomy 4:11: "unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness."
Deuteronomy 4:11: "of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness."
Deuteronomy 5:22: "out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more."
2 Samuel 22:10: "He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet."
1 Kings 8:12: "The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness."
2 Chronicles 6:1: "The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness."
Job 22:13: "know? can he judge through the dark cloud?"
Job 38:9: "When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band"
Psalms 18:9: "He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet."
Psalms 97:2: "Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne."
Isaiah 60:2: "the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon"
Jeremiah 13:16: "he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness."
Ezekiel 34:12: "places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day."
Joel 2:2: "and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains:"
Zephaniah 1:15: "and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,"