# H653 אֲפֵלָה

אֲפֵלָה (ʼăphêlâh), Strong’s H653: duskiness, figuratively, misfortune; concrete, concealment KJV: dark, darkness, gloominess, [idiom] thick.. Occurs 10 times.

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*ʼăphêlâh* — duskiness, figuratively, misfortune; concrete, concealment

KJV: dark, darkness, gloominess, [idiom] thick.

Occurs 10 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אֲפֵלָה n.f. darkness, gloominess, calamity

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 10:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/10?v=22) — Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.
- [Deuteronomy 28:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/28?v=29) — You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be…
- [Isaiah 8:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/8?v=22) — then look to the earth and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
- [Isaiah 58:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/58?v=10) — and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and…
- [Isaiah 59:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/59?v=9) — Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for…
- [Jeremiah 23:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/23?v=12) — Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I…
- [Joel 2:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joel/2?v=2) — A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great…
- [Zephaniah 1:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/zephaniah/1?v=15) — 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…
- [Proverbs 4:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/4?v=19) — The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.
- [Proverbs 7:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/7?v=9) — in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.