And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
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אֲפֵלָה
H653 · ʼăphêlâh · af-ay-law' · Hebrew
Strong’s definition
duskiness, figuratively, misfortune; concrete, concealment
KJV usage
dark, darkness, gloominess, × thick.
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Mapped occurrences
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 and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
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 the noonday:
Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
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 upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
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 strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
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 clouds and thick darkness,