γνόφος
gnóphos · G1105 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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darkness
A condition resulting from the partial or complete absence of light (see φέγγος (phéngos, G5338))
ExamplesHebrews 12:18 For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind,
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- σκοτία skotía · G4653 · darkness, evil world, realm of evil
- Both terms denote darkness or obscurity. While σκοτία is the more common term used across literal and figurative registers (including moral/spiritual darkness), γνόφος appears in New Testament Greek specifically to describe dense, storm-like gloom in contexts of divine theophany or eschatological darkness, representing a more specialized or intensified register of the same core concept.
In the other Testament 1 word
- עֲרָפֶל ʻărâphel · H6205 · thick clouds, darkness
- Greek γνόφος denotes storm-associated gloom or thick darkness (particularly in divine theophany contexts), directly corresponding to Hebrew עֲרָפֶל which denotes thick darkness or dark cloud (especially the dense cloud of God's presence at Sinai and in temple imagery).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Darkness14.53
- Used of a place of gloom, as of the darkness and gloom and whirlwind that the readers of Hebrews have not come to, in contrast with Mount Zion, in Hebrews 12:18.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon γνόφου, ὁ (for the earlier (and poetic) δνόφος, akin to νέφος (so Alexander Buttmann…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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