Proverbs 20:20
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
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Proverbs 20:20
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
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אִישׁוֹן
ʼîyshôwn · ee-shone'
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
the little man of the eye; the pupil or ball; hence, the middle (of night)
Strong's KJV usage: apple (of the eye), black, obscure.
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Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
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obscure
OBSCU'RE, adjective [Latin obscurus.]
1. Dark; destitute of light.
Whoso curseth his father or mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. Proverbs 20:20.
2. Living in darkness; as the obscure bird.
3. Not easily understood; not obviously intelligible; abstruse; as an obscure passage in a writing.
4. Not much known or observed; retired; remote from observation; as an obscure retreat.
5. Not noted; unknown; unnoticed; humble; mean; as an obscure person; a person of obscure birth.
6. Not easily legible; as an obscure inscription.
7. Not clear, full or distinct; imperfect; as an obscure view of remote objects.
OBSCU'RE, verb transitive [Latin obscuro.]
1. To darken; to make dark. The shadow of the earth obscures the moon, and the body of the moon obscures the sun, in an eclipse.
2. To cloud; to make partially dark. Thick clouds obscure the day.
3. To hide from the view; as, clouds obscure the sun.
4. To make less visible.
Why, 'tis an office of discovery, love, and I should be obscured.
5. To make less legible; as, time has obscured the writing.
6. To make less intelligible.
There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured by the writings of the learned as this.
7. To make less glorious, beautiful or illustrious.
- And see'st not sin obscures thy godlike frame?
8. To conceal; to make unknown.
9. To tarnish; as, to obscure brightness.
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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