Strong's #4655: skotos (pronounced skot'-os)

from the base of 4639; shadiness, i.e. obscurity (literally or figuratively):--darkness.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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skotos

1) darkness

1a) of night darkness

1b) of darkened eyesight or blindness

2) metaphorically

2a) of ignorance respecting divine things and human duties, and the accompanying ungodliness and immorality, together with their consequent misery in hell

2b) persons in whom darkness becomes visible and holds sway

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: from the base of G4639

Citing in TDNT: 7:423, 1049

Usage:

This word is used 32 times:

 

Matthew 4:16: "which sat in darkness saw great light; and"
Matthew 6:23: "is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!"
Matthew 6:23: "be darkness, how great is that darkness!"
Matthew 8:12: "shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and"
Matthew 22:13: "and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping"
Matthew 25:30: "servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and"
Matthew 27:45: "the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land"
Mark 15:33: "hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land"
Luke 1:79: "To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide"
Luke 11:35: "thee be not darkness."
Luke 22:53: "hour, and the power of darkness."
Luke 23:44: "hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth"
John 3:19: "and men loved darkness rather than light, because"
Acts 2:20: "sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into"
Acts 13:11: "And immediately there fell on him a darkness; and he went about seeking"
Acts 26:18: "eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the"
Romans 2:19: "a light of them which are in darkness,"
Romans 13:12: "cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor"
1 Corinthians 4:5: "who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest"
2 Corinthians 4:6: "the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our"
2 Corinthians 6:14: "communion hath light with darkness?"
Ephesians 5:8: "For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in"
Ephesians 5:11: "have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather"
Ephesians 6:12: "against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against"
Colossians 1:13: "from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the"
1 Thessalonians 5:4: "are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you"
1 Thessalonians 5:5: "not of the night, nor of darkness."
Hebrews 12:18: "nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,"
1 Peter 2:9: "of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous"
2 Peter 2:17: "to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever."
1 John 1:6: "and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not"
Jude 1:13: "is reserved the blackness of darkness forever."