STRONGS NUMBER H6075


Word Summary
aphal: to swell
Original Word: עָפַל
Transliteration: aphal
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-fal')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to swell
Meaning: to swell, be elated
Strong's Concordance
be lifted up, presume

A primitive root; to swell; figuratively, be elated -- be lifted up, presume.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6075. aphal

I. עָפַלverb swell (?; so Thes; inferred from derivatives; Arabic is a tumour in the vulva or anus, apparently denominative (compare II. עֹפֶל‎) see Assyrian uplu, probably tumour (DlHWB 7 ublu, but see JenThLz 1895, 250)); —

Pu`al Perfect3feminine singular עֻמְּלָהHabakkuk 2:4 according to ᵑ0‎ (subject נַפְשׁוֺ‎, compare GASm); but substantive needed, BrdSK 1889, 121 הַנֶּעֱלָף‎, We Now הָעַוָּל‎, compare GuKau.

Hiph`il see II. עפל‎. below

II. [עָפַל‎] verb perhaps be heedless (Arabic be heedless, neglectful, inadvertent); —

Hiph`il shew heedlessness, Imperfect3masculine plural לַעֲלוֺת וַיַּעְמִּלוּNumbers 14:44 (JE) they shewed heedlessness in going up (went up heedlessly), so de Dieu, cited (and allowed) by Di BuhlLex; > Thes and others shewed presumption (I. עפל‎, this sense dubious).