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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11 verses
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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
Open full G4655 profile →σκοτία
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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H6205
He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
H2822
He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
H2822
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
H2825
They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
H4285
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
H4285
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
H652
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
H6205
Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
H2822
Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
H2822
He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
H2822
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
H2822
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
H2822
Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
H2822
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
H2822
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
H2825
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
H4285
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
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.
viii.
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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