King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H6075
Transliteration: aphal
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-fal')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to swell
Meaning: to swell, be elated
Word Summary
aphal: to swell
Original Word: עָפַלTransliteration: 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. עָפַל verb 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 עֻמְּלָה Habakkuk 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 וַיַּעְמִּלוּ Numbers 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).