STRONGS NUMBER H6205


Word Summary
araphel: cloud, heavy cloud
Original Word: עֲרָפֶל
Transliteration: araphel
Phonetic Spelling: (ar-aw-fel')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: cloud, heavy cloud
Meaning: cloud, heavy cloud
Strong's Concordance
gross, thick dark cloud,

Probably from araph; gloom (as of a lowering sky) -- (gross, thick) dark (cloud, -ness).

see HEBREW araph

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6205. araphel

עֲרָפֶלnoun masculine cloud, heavy cloud (perhaps from above √ + ל‎ afformative; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Syriac ; עֲרָפֵילָא ᵑ7‎; Mandean ארפילא‎ NöM 126, 128; on vocaliz. see BaNB 160 and against him SchwZAW x (1890), 178 who proposes עַרְמֶּל‎); — ׳ע‎ in which God dwells Exodus 20:18 (Gi; van d. H. 20:21), 1 Kings 8:12 2 Chronicles 6:1; + עָנָןDeuteronomy 4:11 (also חשֶׁח‎), 5:19; Psalm 97:2; Job 22:13 see בַּעַד‎; ׳ע רַגְלָיו תַּחַת2 Samuel 22:10 = Psalm 18:10; as swaddling-bands of sea Job 38:9; figurative of misery Isaiah 60:2 ("" חשֶׁח‎); of ׳י‎s judgment Jeremiah 13:16 ("" צַלְמָוֶת‎), as a past day וַע עָנָן ׳יוֺםEzekiel 34:12 = (of future day of ׳י‎) Zephaniah 1:15 ("" וַאֲפֵלָה חשֶׁח יוֺם‎) = Joel 2:2 ("" id.).