Lexical Summary gnophos: darkness, gloom Original Word: γνόφοςTransliteration: gnophos Phonetic Spelling: (gnof'-os) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: darkness, gloom Meaning: darkness, gloom Strong's Concordance blackness. Akin to nephos; gloom (as of a storm) -- blackness. see GREEK nephos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1105: γνόφοςγνόφος, γνόφου, ὁ (for the earlier (and poetic) δνόφος, akin to νέφος (so Alexander Buttmann (1873) Lexil. 2:266; but see Curtius, pp. 704f, 706, cf. 535; Vanicek, p. 1070)), darkness, gloom: Hebrews 12:18. (Aristotle, de mund. c. 2 at the end, p. 392b, 12; Lucian, de mort. Peregr. 43; Dio Chrysostom; the Sept. also for עָנָן a cloud, Deuteronomy 4:11, etc. and for עֲרָפֶל 'thick cloud,' Exodus 20:21, etc.; (Trench, § c.).) |
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