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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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.
Read in context →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,
Read in context →28 occurrences in 24 verses.
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chôshek · kho-shek'
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
Strong's KJV usage: dark(-ness), night, obscurity.
Strong's first: Genesis 1:2Strong's last: Zephaniah 1:15
Open full H2822 profile →skótos · skot'-os
shadiness, i.e. obscurity (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--darkness.
Strong's first: Matthew 4:16Strong's last: Jude 1:13
Open full G4655 profile →skotía · skot-ee'-ah
dimness, obscurity (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--dark(-ness).
Strong's first: Matthew 10:27Strong's last: 1 John 2:11
Open full G4653 profile →ʻărâphel · ar-aw-fel'
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 →ʼôphel · o'fel
dusk
Strong's KJV usage: darkness, obscurity, privily.
Strong's first: Job 3:6Strong's last: Psalms 91:6
Open full H652 profile →ʼăphêlâh · af-ay-law'
duskiness, figuratively, misfortune; concrete, concealment
Strong's KJV usage: dark, darkness, gloominess, × thick.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 28:29Strong's last: Jeremiah 23:12
Open full H653 profile →chăshêkâh · khash-ay-kaw'
darkness; figuratively, misery
Strong's KJV usage: darkness.
Strong's first: Genesis 15:12Strong's last: Isaiah 50:10
Open full H2825 profile →machshâk · makh-shawk'
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 →zóphos · dzof'-os
gloom (as shrouding like a cloud)
Strong's KJV usage: :--blackness, darkness, mist.
Strong's first: 2 Peter 2:4Strong's last: Jude 1:6
Open full G2217 profile →skoteinós · skot-i-nos'
opaque, i.e. (figuratively) benighted
Strong's KJV usage: :--dark, full of darkness.
Strong's first: Matthew 6:23Strong's last: Luke 11:34
Open full G4652 profile →ʻêyphâh · ay-faw'
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 →skotóō · skot-o'-o
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 →chăshôwk · khash-oke'
the dark
Strong's KJV usage: darkness.
Strong's first: Daniel 2:22Strong's last: Daniel 2:22
Open full H2816 profile →châshak · khaw-shak'
to be dark (as withholding light); transitively, to darken
Strong's KJV usage: be black, be (make) dark, darken, cause darkness, be dim, hide.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 13:16Strong's last: Jeremiah 13:16
Open full H2821 profile →maʼăphêl · mah-af-ale'
something opaque
Strong's KJV usage: darkness.
Strong's first: Joshua 24:7Strong's last: Joshua 24:7
Open full H3990 profile →maʼphêlᵉyâh · mah-af-ay-leh-yaw'
opaqueness
Strong's KJV usage: darkness.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 2:31Strong's last: Jeremiah 2:31
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When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
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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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