Strong's Lexicon
G2217 — ζόφος
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G2217 |
|---|---|
| Word: | ζόφος |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Etymology: | akin to the base of G3509 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 5 |
| Transliteration: | zophos |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | dzof'-os |
| Meaning: | 1. gloom (as shrouding like a cloud) 2. clouding gloom |
| KJV Renderings: | blackness, darkness, mist |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ζόφος, ζόφου, ὁ (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: Heb 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), 2Pe 2:4; Jud 1:6; ζόφος τοῦ σκότους (cf. çÉùÆÑêÎàÂôÅìÈä, Exo 10:22), the blackness of (i. e. the densest) darkness, 2Pe 2:17; Jud 1:13. (Cf. Trench, § c.)
Englishman's Greek Concordance
ζόφος (blackness)
2 Peter 2:4
- KJV: For if God spared not the angels that sinned but cast down to hell and delivered into chains of darkness to be reserved unto judgment
- GK: ει γαρ ο θεός αγγέλων αμαρτησάντων ουκ εφείσατο αλλά σειραίς ζόφου ταρταρώσας παρέδωκεν εις κρίσιν τετηρημένους
2 Peter 2:17
- KJV: These are wells without water clouds that are carried with a tempest to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever
- GK: ούτοί εισι πηγαί άνυδροι νεφέλαι υπό λαίλαπος ελαυνόμεναι οις ο ζόφος του σκότους εις αιώνα τετήρηται
Jude 1:6
- KJV: And the angels which kept not their first estate but left their own habitation he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day
- GK: αγγέλους τε τους μη τηρήσαντας την εαυτών αρχήν αλλά απολιπόντας το ίδιον οικητήριον εις κρίσιν μεγάλης ημέρας δεσμοίς αϊδίοις υπό ζόφον τετήρηκεν
Jude 1:13
- KJV: Raging waves of the sea foaming out their own shame wandering stars to whom is reserved blackness of darkness for ever
- GK: κύματα άγρια θαλάσσης επαφρίζοντα τας εαυτών αισχύνας αστέρες πλανήται οις ο ζόφος του σκότους εις τον αιώνα τετήρηται