Strong’s
H5309Noun, masculine3 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Job 3:16כְנֵפֶל
Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
- Psalm 58:8נֵפֶל
Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3הַנָּפֶל
A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
נֵ֫פֶל n.m. untimely birth, abortion
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.