H5309: נֶפֶל
nephel · pronounced neh'-fel · “miscarriage”
Definition
something fallen, i.e. an abortion
KJV translates it as: untimely birth.
Word origin: or נֵפֶל; from H5307 (נָפַל);
Extended definition
untimely birth, abortion, miscarriage
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H5309 is translated
- a miscarriage ×1
- a miscarriage of ×1
- miscarriage ×1
Bible verses with H5309 (nephel)
Nephel appears in 3 verses.
- Job 3:16
Or as an hidden untimely birth 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 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 is better than he.