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Strong's #652: 'ophel (pronounced o'fel)

from the same as 651; dusk:--darkness, obscurity, privily.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'ôphel

1) darkness, gloom

2) spiritual unreceptivity, calamity (figuratively)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from the same as H651



Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

Job 3:6: "As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year,"
Job 10:22: "A land of darkness, darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light"
Job 10:22: "any order, and where the light is as darkness."
Job 23:17: "before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face."
Job 28:3: "and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death."
Job 30:26: "unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness."
Psalms 11:2: "their arrow upon the string, that they may privily that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart."
Psalms 91:6: "Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday."
Isaiah 29:18: "and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, out of obscurity, and out of darkness."









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