ζόφος
zophos · deep darkness, gloom
Greek word · Strong’s number G2217 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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zophos (ζόφος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “deep darkness, gloom”.
The darkness of the lowest places.
How to say it
zo·phos
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A thick blackness, without any ray of light.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
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Where it appears
- Hebrews 12:18
For you have not drawn near to what can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and a storm,
- 2 Peter 2:4
For if God did not spare angels who sinned, but cast them into Tartarus and handed them over to chains of gloom, being kept for judgment;
- 2 Peter 2:17
These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm; for them the gloom of darkness has been reserved.
- Jude 1:6
And angels who did not keep their own dignity but abandoned their own dwelling he has kept in eternal chains under gloom for the judgment of the great day.
- Jude 1:13
wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shameful deeds; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved forever.