Nephel — H5309

Definition

masculine noun

something fallen, i.e. an abortion

1. untimely birth, abortion, miscarriage

Usually translated as

untimely birth

Origin

or nêphel; from H5307

• Derived from Nâphal (H5307)

Greek equivalents

• éktrōma (G1626)

Occurrences

Nephel occurs 3 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Job (1), Psalms (1), Ecclesiastes (1)

• Job 3:16 — Or as an hidden untimely birth (כְנֵ֣פֶל) I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
• Psalms 58:8 — As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth (נֵ֥פֶל) of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
• Ecclesiastes 6:3 — If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth (הַנָּֽפֶל) is better than he.