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Strong's #2217: zophos (pronounced dzof'-os)

akin to the base of 3509; gloom (as shrouding like a cloud):--blackness, darkness, mist.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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zophos

1) darkness, blackness

1a) used of the darkness of the nether world

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: akin to the base of G3509




Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

2 Peter 2:4: "cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;"
2 Peter 2:17: "a tempest: to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever."
Jude 1:6: "in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day."
Jude 1:13: "to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever."









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