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title: אָפִיל — late · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אָפִיל (648), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: late. BDB 1906: adj. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אָפִיל

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«אָפִיל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **late** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 648 · **BDB:** אָפִיל

### Glosses

\[are\].late.\[crops\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

late [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/648/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/648/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. (darkened, concealed, thence) late, of crops;—אֲפִילֹת Ex 9:32 of wheat \& spelt.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אָפִיל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/648/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 9:32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.32/)

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וְהַחִטָּ֥ה וְהַכֻּסֶּ֖מֶת לֹ֣א נֻכּ֑וּ כִּ֥י אֲפִילֹ֖ת הֵֽנָּה׃

*Word for word:* and the wheat and the spelt not they.were.struck (dm) \[are\].late.\[crops\] they

*JPS 1917:* But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they ripen late. —

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