3991. maapheleyah
Strong's Lexicon
maapheleyah: Gloom, Darkness

Original Word: מַאֲפֵלְיָה
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: maapheleyah
Pronunciation: mah-af-el-yah
Phonetic Spelling: (mah-af-ay-leh-yaw')
Definition: Gloom, Darkness
Meaning: opaqueness

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from the same as ophel
Definition
deep darkness
NASB Translation
thick darkness (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
מַאְמֵּלְיָה noun feminine deep darkness (= מַאֲפֵל יָהּ according to Thes MV compare Songs 8:6 שַׁלְהֶבֶתְיָה; but Ew§ 165 b & on Jeremiah 2:31 reads מַאְמִּלִיָה feminine of [מאפלי], derived from Hiph`il Participle; compare Sta§ 302 b מַאְמְּלִיָּה; JägerBAS 471 thinks this יָה an enclitic particle of emphasis, & compare Assyrian) — only ׳אֶרֶץ מ Jeremiah 2:31 figurative of ׳י in dealing with his people ("" מִרְבָּר).

אֶפְלָל see below פלל . p. 813.

אפן (meaning dubious, perhaps turn, compare פנה)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
opaqueness

Prol. Feminine of ma'aphel; opaqueness:

see HEBREW ma'aphel

Forms and Transliterations
מַאְפֵּ֖לְיָ֑ה מאפליה ma’·pê·lə·yāh ma’pêləyāh maPeleYah
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Englishman's Concordance
Jeremiah 2:31
HEB: אִ֛ם אֶ֥רֶץ מַאְפֵּ֖לְיָ֑ה מַדּ֜וּעַ אָמְר֤וּ
NAS: a land of thick darkness? Why
KJV: a land of darkness? wherefore say
INT: Or A land of thick how say

1 Occurrence

Strong's Hebrew 3991
1 Occurrence


ma’·pê·lə·yāh — 1 Occ.

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