And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
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עֲרָפֶל
H6205 · ʻărâphel · ar-aw-fel' · Hebrew
Strong’s definition
gloom (as of a lowering sky)
KJV usage
(gross, thick) dark (cloud, -ness).
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Mapped occurrences
And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.
Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,