Strong's Lexicon
G1105
G1105 — γνόφος
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G1105 |
|---|---|
| Word: | γνόφος |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Etymology: | akin to G3509 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 1 |
| Transliteration: | gnophos |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | gnof'-os |
| Meaning: | 1. gloom (as of a storm) 2. stormy gloom |
| KJV Renderings: | blackness |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
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: Heb 12:18. (Aristotle, de mund. c. 2 at the end, p. 392b, 12; Lucian, de mort. Peregr. 43; Dio Chrysostom; the Sept. also for òÈðÈï a cloud, Deu 4:11, etc. and for òÂøÈôÆì ’thick cloud,’ Exo 20:21, etc.; (Trench, § c.).)
Englishman's Greek Concordance
γνόφος (blackness)
Hebrews 12:18
- KJV: For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched and that burned with fire nor unto blackness and darkness and tempest
- GK: ου γαρ προσεληλύθατε ψηλαφωμένω όρει και κεκαυμένω πυρί και γνόφω και σκότω και θυέλλη