Lexicon skotia: darkness Original Word: σκοτία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: skotia Phonetic Spelling: (skot-ee'-ah) Short Definition: darkness Definition: darkness; fig: spiritual darkness. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 4653 skotía (a feminine noun) – darkness, a brand of moral, spiritual obscurity (i.e. which blocks the light of God when faith is lacking). See also 4655 /skótos ("darkness"). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom skotosDefinitiondarkness NASB Translationdark (3), darkness (14).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4653: σκοτίασκοτία, σκοτίας, ἡ (on its derivation cf. σκηνή), ( Thomas Magister, ὁ σκότος καί τό σκότος. τό δέ σκοτία οὐκ ἐν χρησει namely, in Attic (cf. Moeris, under the word; Liddell and Scott, under the word σκότος, at the end)), darkness: properly, the darkness due to want of daylight, John 6:17; John 20:1; ἐν τῇ σκοτία ( λαλεῖν τί), unseen, in secret (equivalent to ἐν κρύπτω, John 18:20), privily, in private, opposed to ἐν τῷ φωτί, Matthew 10:27; Luke 12:3; metaphorically, used of ignorance of divine things, and its associated wickedness, and the resultant misery: Matthew 4:16 L Tr WH; John 1:5; John 6:17; John 8:12; John 12:35, 46; 1 John 1:5; 1 John 2:8f, 11. (Ap. Rh. 4, 1698; Anth. 8, 187. 190; for חָשְׁכָה Micah 3:6; for אֹפֶל, Job 28:3.)
Strong's darkness. From skotos; dimness, obscurity (literally or figuratively) -- dark(-ness). see GREEK skotos |
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