# אֲפֵלָה (afelah)

Israeli respelling: a-fe-lah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H653. 10 Old Testament occurrences.

duskiness, figuratively, misfortune; concrete, concealment

King James renderings: dark, darkness, gloominess, [idiom] thick.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/afelah-h653

## Occurrences

- [Exodus 10:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/10/22) — And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
- [Deuteronomy 28:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/29) — And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed…
- [Proverbs 4:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/4/19) — The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
- [Proverbs 7:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/7/9) — In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
- [Isaiah 8:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/8/22) — And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
- [Isaiah 58:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/58/10) — And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as…
- [Isaiah 59:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/9) — Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk i…
- [Jeremiah 23:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/23/12) — Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil u…
- [Joel 2:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/2) — A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a…
- [Zephaniah 1:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/1/15) — That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of cl…