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Darkness

γνόφοςStrong’s G1105

gnophos

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Gnophos is the Greek word usually translated “darkness”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,”
Hebrews 12:18 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “darkness”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • to darkness 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Hebrews 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    γνόφος gnophos · darkness

    γνόφος (later form of δν-), [in LXX for אָפֵל, עֲרָפֶל, etc. ;] darkness, gloom (including "an element of tempest," Tr., Syn., §with): Heb.12:18.† SYN.: ἀχλύς, ζόφος, σκότος (Tr., l.with; DB, i, 457a). (AS)

    From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “darkness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    D'ARKNESS, noun

    1. Absence of light.“And darkness was on the face of the deep” Genesis 1:2
    2. Obscurity; want of clearness or perspicuity; that quality or state which renders any thing difficult to be understood; as the darkness of counsels.
    3. A state of being intellectually clouded; ignorance.“Men loved darkness rather than light” John 3:19
    4. A private place; secrecy; privacy.“What I tell in darkness that speak ye in light” Matthew 10:27
    All definitions
    1. Infernal gloom; hell; as utter darkness Matthew 22:13
    2. Great trouble and distress; calamities; perplexities.“A day of clouds and thick darkness Is” Joel 2:2
    3. Empire of Satan.“Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness” Colossians 1:13
    4. Opakeness.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.