Strong's Greek Concordance

G2217: ζόφος

zóphos · “darkness”

Definition

gloom (as shrouding like a cloud)

KJV translates it as: blackness, darkness, mist

Word origin: akin to the base of G3509 (νέφος);

Extended definition

ζόφος, -ου, ὁ
(akin to γνόφος, which see), [in Sm.: Exo.10:22, Job.28:3, Psa.11:2 91:6, Isa.59:9 * ;]
in Hom, the gloom of the under-world; hence, darkness, deep gloom (poët. and late prose writers): Heb.12:18, 2Pe.2:4 2:17, Ju 6 13.†
ὁμίχλη, -ης, ἡ,
[in LXX for עֲרָפֶל, etc. ;]
a mist: 2Pe.2:17
SYN.: νέφος, νεφέλη, both thicker than ὁ (AS)

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How G2217 is translated

  • gloom ×2
  • to gloom ×1
  • of gloomy darkness ×1
  • darkness ×1

Bible verses with G2217 (zóphos)

Zóphos appears in 5 verses.

  • Hebrews 12:18

    For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

  • 2 Peter 2:4

    For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

  • 2 Peter 2:17

    These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

  • Jude 1:6

    And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

  • Jude 1:13

    Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.