◄ 2217. zophos ►
Strong's Lexicon zophos: Darkness, Gloom Original Word: ζόφος Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: zophos Pronunciation: ZO-fos Phonetic Spelling: (dzof'-os) Definition: Darkness, Gloom Meaning: darkness, murkiness, gloom. HELPS Word-studies 2217 zóphos – murky, appalling gloom, referring to darkness so dense and foreboding it is "felt"; (figuratively) apocalyptic, gloomy darkness associated with the nether world (BAGD) bringing its indescribable despair (incredible gloom). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origin akin to gnophos Definition deep gloom NASB Translation black (2), darkness (2), gloom (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2217: ζόφος ζόφος, ζόφου, ὁ (akin to γνόφος, δνόφος, νέφος, κνέφας, see Alexander Buttmann (1873) Lexil. ii., p. 266 (Fishlake's translation, p. 378); cf. Curtius, p. 706), darkness, blackness: Hebrews 12:18 L T Tr WH; as in Homer Iliad 15, 191; 21, 56, etc., used of the darkness of the nether world (cf. Grimm on Wis. 17:14), 2 Peter 2:4; Jude 1:6; ζόφος τοῦ σκότους (cf. חֹשֶׁך־אֲפֵלָה, Exodus 10:22), the blackness of (i. e. the densest) darkness, 2 Peter 2:17; Jude 1:13. (Cf. Trench, § c.) Strong's Exhaustive Concordance blackness, darkness, mist. Akin to the base of nephos; gloom (as shrouding like a cloud) -- blackness, darkness, mist. see GREEK nephos Forms and Transliterations ζοφον ζόφον ζοφος ζόφος ζοφου ζόφου ζοφω ζόφῳ zopho zophō zóphoi zóphōi zophon zóphon zophos zóphos zophou zóphou Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts Englishman's Concordance Hebrews 12:18 N-DMS GRK: γνόφῳ καὶ ζόφῳ καὶ θυέλλῃ NAS: and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind, INT: to obscurity and to darkness and to storm 2 Peter 2:4 N-GMS GRK: ἀλλὰ σειραῖς ζόφου ταρταρώσας παρέδωκεν NAS: them to pits of darkness, reserved KJV: [them] into chains of darkness, to be reserved INT: but to chains of darkness having cast [them] to the deepest abyss delivered [them] 2 Peter 2:17 N-NMS GRK: οἷς ὁ ζόφος τοῦ σκότους NAS: for whom the black darkness KJV: to whom the mist of darkness INT: to whom the gloom of darkness Jude 1:6 N-AMS GRK: ἀϊδίοις ὑπὸ ζόφον τετήρηκεν NAS: under darkness for the judgment KJV: under darkness unto INT: eternal under darkness he keeps Jude 1:13 N-NMS GRK: οἷς ὁ ζόφος τοῦ σκότους NAS: for whom the black darkness KJV: is reserved the blackness of darkness INT: to whom the gloom of darkness Strong's Greek 2217 5 Occurrences ζόφῳ — 1 Occ. ζόφον — 1 Occ. ζόφος — 2 Occ. ζόφου — 1 Occ.