Genesis 1:2
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
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Darkness
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Revelation 16:10
And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
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חֹשֶׁךְ
chôshek · kho-shek'
70 times translated as this KJV form80 total Strong's occurrences
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
Strong's KJV usage: dark(-ness), night, obscurity.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 1:2Strong's last: Zephaniah 1:15
Open full H2822 profile →σκότος
skótos · skot'-os
32 times translated as this KJV form32 total Strong's occurrences
shadiness, i.e. obscurity (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--darkness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 4:16Strong's last: Jude 1:13
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skotía · skot-ee'-ah
14 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
dimness, obscurity (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--dark(-ness).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 10:27Strong's last: 1 John 2:11
Open full G4653 profile →עֲרָפֶל
ʻărâphel · ar-aw-fel'
13 times translated as this KJV form15 total Strong's occurrences
gloom (as of a lowering sky)
Strong's KJV usage: (gross, thick) dark (cloud, -ness).
Strong's first: Exodus 20:21Strong's last: Zephaniah 1:15
Open full H6205 profile →אֹפֶל
ʼôphel · o'fel
7 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
dusk
Strong's KJV usage: darkness, obscurity, privily.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 3:6Strong's last: Psalms 91:6
Open full H652 profile →אֲפֵלָה
ʼăphêlâh · af-ay-law'
6 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
duskiness, figuratively, misfortune; concrete, concealment
Strong's KJV usage: dark, darkness, gloominess, × thick.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 28:29Strong's last: Jeremiah 23:12
Open full H653 profile →חֲשֵׁכָה
chăshêkâh · khash-ay-kaw'
5 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
darkness; figuratively, misery
Strong's KJV usage: darkness.
Strong's first: Genesis 15:12Strong's last: Isaiah 50:10
Open full H2825 profile →מַחְשָׁךְ
machshâk · makh-shawk'
4 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
darkness; concretely, a dark place
Strong's KJV usage: dark(-ness, place).
Strong's first: Psalms 88:6Strong's last: Isaiah 42:16
Open full H4285 profile →ζόφος
zóphos · dzof'-os
2 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
gloom (as shrouding like a cloud)
Strong's KJV usage: :--blackness, darkness, mist.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Peter 2:4Strong's last: Jude 1:6
Open full G2217 profile →σκοτεινός
skoteinós · skot-i-nos'
2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
opaque, i.e. (figuratively) benighted
Strong's KJV usage: :--dark, full of darkness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 6:23Strong's last: Luke 11:34
Open full G4652 profile →עֵיפָה
ʻêyphâh · ay-faw'
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
obscurity (as if from covering)
Strong's KJV usage: darkness.
Strong's first: Job 10:22Strong's last: Amos 4:13
Open full H5890 profile →σκοτόω
skotóō · skot-o'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to obscure or blind (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be full of darkness.
Strong's first: Revelation 16:10Strong's last: Revelation 16:10
Open full G4656 profile →חֲשׁוֹךְ
chăshôwk · khash-oke'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
the dark
Strong's KJV usage: darkness.
Strong's first: Daniel 2:22Strong's last: Daniel 2:22
Open full H2816 profile →חָשַׁךְ
châshak · khaw-shak'
1 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
to be dark (as withholding light); transitively, to darken
Strong's KJV usage: be black, be (make) dark, darken, cause darkness, be dim, hide.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 13:16Strong's last: Jeremiah 13:16
Open full H2821 profile →מַאֲפֵל
maʼăphêl · mah-af-ale'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
something opaque
Strong's KJV usage: darkness.
Strong's first: Joshua 24:7Strong's last: Joshua 24:7
Open full H3990 profile →מַאְפֵלְיָה
maʼphêlᵉyâh · mah-af-ay-leh-yaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
opaqueness
Strong's KJV usage: darkness.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 2:31Strong's last: Jeremiah 2:31
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H2822
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
H2822
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
H2822
And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
H2825
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
H653
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
H2822
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
H2822
And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
H2822
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
H4285
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
H2822
And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
H2822
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
H2822
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
H2822
That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
H2825
Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
H653
And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:
H653
Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
H2822
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.
H6205
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.
English meaning and historical usage.
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darkness
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.
5. Infernal gloom; hell; as utter darkness Matthew 22:13.
6. Great trouble and distress; calamities; perplexities.
A day of clouds and thick darkness Joel 2:2. Is.
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7. Empire of Satan.
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness
Colossians 1:13.
8. Opakeness.
Land of darkness the grave. Job 10:21.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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