Strong's #653: 'aphelah (pronounced af-ay-law')

feminine of 651; duskiness, figuratively, misfortune; concrete, concealment:--dark, darkness, gloominess, X thick.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'ăphêlâh

1) darkness, gloominess, calamity

2) wickedness (figuratively)

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H651

Usage:

This word is used 10 times:

 

Exodus 10:22: "toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt"
Deuteronomy 28:29: "as the blind gropeth in darkness, prosper in thy ways:"
Proverbs 4:19: "The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble."
Proverbs 7:9: "In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:"
Isaiah 8:22: "dimness and they shall be driven to darkness."
Isaiah 58:10: "then shall thy light in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:"
Isaiah 59:9: "but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness."
Jeremiah 23:12: "their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall I will bring"
Joel 2:2: "A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning"
Zephaniah 1:15: "and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,"