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מַאֲפֵל

ma.a.phel

darkness

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Strong’s H3990Noun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

darkness1

In the text

Joshua 24:7מַאֲפֵל
So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מַאֲפֵל n.[m.] darkness, Jos 24:7 (E) between Hebrews & Egyptians.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.