2217. zophos
Strong's Concordance
zophos: deep gloom
Original Word: ζόφος, ου, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: zophos
Phonetic Spelling: (dzof'-os)
Short Definition: darkness, murkiness
Definition: darkness, murkiness, gloom.
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2217 zóphos – murky, appalling gloom, referring to darkness so dense and foreboding it is "felt"; (figuratively) apocalyptic, gloomy darkness associated with the nether world (BAGD) bringing its indescribable despair (incredible gloom).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2217: ζόφος

ζόφος, ζόφου, (akin to γνόφος, δνόφος, νέφος, κνέφας, see Alexander Buttmann (1873) Lexil. ii., p. 266 (Fishlake's translation, p. 378); cf. Curtius, p. 706), darkness, blackness: Hebrews 12:18 L T Tr WH; as in Homer Iliad 15, 191; 21, 56, etc., used of the darkness of the nether world (cf. Grimm on Wis. 17:14), 2 Peter 2:4; Jude 1:6; ζόφος τοῦ σκότους (cf. חֹשֶׁך־אֲפֵלָה, Exodus 10:22), the blackness of (i. e. the densest) darkness, 2 Peter 2:17; Jude 1:13. (Cf. Trench, § c.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
blackness, darkness, mist.

Akin to the base of nephos; gloom (as shrouding like a cloud) -- blackness, darkness, mist.

see GREEK nephos

Forms and Transliterations
ζοφον ζόφον ζοφος ζόφος ζοφου ζόφου ζοφω ζόφῳ zopho zophō zóphoi zóphōi zophon zóphon zophos zóphos zophou zóphou
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5 Occurrences


ζόφῳ — 1 Occ.
ζόφον — 1 Occ.
ζόφος — 2 Occ.
ζόφου — 1 Occ.

Hebrews 12:18 N-DMS
GRK: γνόφῳ καὶ ζόφῳ καὶ θυέλλῃ
NAS: and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind,
INT: to obscurity and to darkness and to storm

2 Peter 2:4 N-GMS
GRK: ἀλλὰ σειραῖς ζόφου ταρταρώσας παρέδωκεν
NAS: them to pits of darkness, reserved
KJV: [them] into chains of darkness, to be reserved
INT: but to chains of darkness having cast [them] to the deepest abyss delivered [them]

2 Peter 2:17 N-NMS
GRK: οἷς ὁ ζόφος τοῦ σκότους
NAS: for whom the black darkness
KJV: to whom the mist of darkness
INT: to whom the gloom of darkness

Jude 1:6 N-AMS
GRK: ἀϊδίοις ὑπὸ ζόφον τετήρηκεν
NAS: under darkness for the judgment
KJV: under darkness unto
INT: eternal under darkness he keeps

Jude 1:13 N-NMS
GRK: οἷς ὁ ζόφος τοῦ σκότους
NAS: for whom the black darkness
KJV: is reserved the blackness of darkness
INT: to whom the gloom of darkness

5 Occurrences

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