King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G1105
Transliteration: gnophos
Phonetic Spelling: (gnof'-os)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: darkness, gloom
Meaning: darkness, gloom
γνόφος, γνόφου, ὁ (for the earlier (and poetic) δνόφος, akin to νέφος (so Alexander Buttmann (1873) Lexil. 2:266; but see Curtius, pp. 704f, 706, cf. 535; Vanicek, p. 1070)), darkness, gloom: Hebrews 12:18. (Aristotle, de mund. c. 2 at the end, p. 392b, 12; Lucian, de mort. Peregr. 43; Dio Chrysostom; the Sept. also for עָנָן a cloud, Deuteronomy 4:11, etc. and for עֲרָפֶל 'thick cloud,' Exodus 20:21, etc.; (Trench, § c.).)
Word Summary
gnophos: darkness, gloom
Original Word: γνόφοςTransliteration: gnophos
Phonetic Spelling: (gnof'-os)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: darkness, gloom
Meaning: darkness, gloom
Strong's Concordance
blackness. Akin to nephos; gloom (as of a storm) -- blackness.
see GREEK nephos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1105: γνόφοςγνόφος, γνόφου, ὁ (for the earlier (and poetic) δνόφος, akin to νέφος (so Alexander Buttmann (1873) Lexil. 2:266; but see Curtius, pp. 704f, 706, cf. 535; Vanicek, p. 1070)), darkness, gloom: Hebrews 12:18. (Aristotle, de mund. c. 2 at the end, p. 392b, 12; Lucian, de mort. Peregr. 43; Dio Chrysostom; the Sept. also for עָנָן a cloud, Deuteronomy 4:11, etc. and for עֲרָפֶל 'thick cloud,' Exodus 20:21, etc.; (Trench, § c.).)