Limitless Word
עֲרָפֶלʻărâphel/ar-aw-fel'/
HebrewH620515 occurrences (KJV)

gloom (as of a lowering sky)

KJV renders it: (gross, thick) dark (cloud, -ness).

Where it appears

  • Exod 20:21The people stayed at a distance, and Moses came near to the thick darkness where God was.
  • Deut 4:11You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
  • Deut 5:22Yahweh spoke these words to all your assembly on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice. He added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets, and gave them to me.
  • 2 Sam 22:10He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.
  • 1 Kgs 8:12Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
  • 2 Chr 6:1Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
  • Job 22:13You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
  • Job 38:9when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
  • Ps 18:9He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.
  • Ps 97:2Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
  • Isa 60:2For, behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.
  • Jer 13:16Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
  • Ezek 34:12As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
  • Joel 2:2A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
  • Zeph 1:15That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.