Strong's Greek · G2217

ζόφος

zóphos

blackness, darkness, mist

Definition

gloom (as shrouding like a cloud)

Derivation

akin to the base of G3509 (νέφος);

Appears 5 times in Scripture

2 Peter 2:17

These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.

Hebrews 12:18

For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

Jude 1:6

And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.

Jude 1:13

They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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