{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H653",
  "lemma": "אֲפֵלָה",
  "transliteration": "ʼăphêlâh",
  "definition": "duskiness, figuratively, misfortune; concrete, concealment",
  "kjv": "dark, darkness, gloominess, [idiom] thick.",
  "occurrences": 10,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "אֲפֵלָה n.f. darkness, gloominess, calamity"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 10:22",
      "text": "Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/10?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 28:29",
      "text": "You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/28?v=29"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 8:22",
      "text": "then look to the earth and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/8?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 58:10",
      "text": "and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/58?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 59:9",
      "text": "Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/59?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 23:12",
      "text": "Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/23?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joel 2:2",
      "text": "A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joel/2?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Zephaniah 1:15",
      "text": "That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/zephaniah/1?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Proverbs 4:19",
      "text": "The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/4?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Proverbs 7:9",
      "text": "in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/7?v=9"
    }
  ],
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