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title: אָפֵל — gloomy · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אָפֵל (651), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: gloomy. BDB 1906: adj. gloomy. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אָפֵל

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«אָפֵל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **gloomy** — 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:** 651 · **BDB:** אָפֵל

### Glosses

gloomy (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

gloomy [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/651/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. gloomy [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/651/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. gloomy, of day of י׳ Am 5:20 (‖ חשׁך, opp. נֹגַהּ) cf. אֲפֵלָה.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 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 «אָפֵל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/651/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Amos 5:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.5.20/)

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הֲלֹא־חֹ֛שֶׁךְ י֥וֹם יְהוָ֖ה וְלֹא־א֑וֹר וְאָפֵ֖ל וְלֹא־נֹ֥גַֽהּ לֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* ? not \[be\].darkness \[will\].the.day of.Yahweh and not light and gloomy and not brightness \[will belong\].to.it

*JPS 1917:* Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

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