1) darkness
1a) of night darkness
1b) of darkened eyesight or blindness
2) metaphorically
2a) of ignorance respecting divine things and human duties, and the accompanying ungodliness and immorality, together with their consequent misery in hell
2b) persons in whom darkness becomes visible and holds sway
Part of Speech: noun neuter
Citing in TDNT: 7:423, 1049
G4655
From the base of G4639; shadiness, that is, obscurity (literally or figuratively): - darkness.
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| (τὸ σκότος τὸ ἐξώτερον) abode of evil spirits | 1.23 |
| (ὁ ζόφος τοῦ σκότους) gloomy hell | 1.24 |
| a darkness | 14.53 |
| (ἀχλὺς καὶ σκότος πίπτει) become blind | 24.40 |
| b evil world | 88.125 |
These two sites give similar information, with the definition from several dictionaries and statistics on the use of the word.
University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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