Exodus 10:22:6Exod.10.22.W6PAT
חֹֽשֶׁךְ־אֲפֵלָ֛ה
khoshekhafela
“pitch darkness”
- Transliteration
- KHO-shekh-a-fe-LA
- Extended
- KHOH-shehkh-ah-feh-LAA
- IPA
- /ˈħoː.ʃɛx.ʔă.feˈlaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- pitch darkness
- French
- obscurité profonde
- Spanish
- oscuridad espesa
- Portuguese
- escuridão espessa
- German
- dichte Finsternis
- Russian
- густая тьма
- Arabic-Simplified
- ظَلَامٌ دَامِسٌ
- Hindi
- घोर अंधकार
- Chinese-Simplified
- 浓密的黑暗
- Korean
- 짙은 어둠
- Indonesian
- kegelapan pekat
- Bengali
- ঘন অন্ধকার
- Tagalog
- makapal na kadiliman
- Swahili
- giza nene
- Amharic
- ጥቅጥቅ ያለ ጨለማ
- Yoruba
- okunkun biribiri
- Igbo
- ọchịchịrị gbara oké
- Twi
- esum kabii
- Ewe
- viviti kɔŋkɔŋ
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
KHO-shekh-a-fe-LA
- phraseyour reading level
va-ye-HI KHO-shekh-a-fe-LA
- clause
va-ye-HI KHO-shekh-a-fe-LA be-KHOL-E-rets mits-RA-yim she-LO-shet ya-MIM
- sentence
va-YET mo-SHE ET-ya-DO AL-ha-sha-MA-yim va-ye-HI KHO-shekh-a-fe-LA be-KHOL-E-rets mits-RA-yim she-LO-shet ya-MIM
In context — Exodus 10:22
and stretched out Moses his hand upon the heavens and there was pitch darkness in all the land of Egypt three days
About this coordinate
Exodus 10:22:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Exodus 10:22, so the Hebrew word חֹֽשֶׁךְ־אֲפֵלָ֛ה (khoshekhafela) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Exod.10.22.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.10.22.W6.S1) and character.