6205 - araphel

Strong's Concordance

Original word: עֲרָפֶל
Transliteration: araphel
Definition (short): darkness
Definition (full): cloud, heavy cloud

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from araph
Definition: cloud, heavy cloud
NASB Translation: deep darkness (1), gloom (1), gloomy (1), thick cloud (3), thick darkness (7), thick gloom (2).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

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

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KJV: And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
NASB: So the people stood at a distance, while Moses approached the thick cloud where God was.
KJV: And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
NASB: "You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the very heart of the heavens: darkness, cloud and thick gloom.
KJV: These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
NASB: "These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, of the cloud and of the thick gloom, with a great voice, and He added no more. He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
KJV: He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.
NASB: "He bowed the heavens also, and came down With thick darkness under His feet.
KJV: Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
NASB: Then Solomon said, "The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud.