Lexical Summary
gnophos: Darkness, Gloom
Original Word: γνόφος
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: gnophos
Pronunciation: GNO-fos
Phonetic Spelling: (gnof'-os)
KJV: blackness
NASB: darkness
Word Origin: [akin to G3509 (νέφος - cloud)]
1. gloom (as of a storm)
2. stormy gloom
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
blackness.
Akin to nephos; gloom (as of a storm) -- blackness.
see GREEK nephos
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom dnophos (darkness)
Definitiondarkness, gloom
NASB Translationdarkness (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1105: γνόφοςγνόφος,
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:
Hebrews 12:18. (
Aristotle, de mund. c. 2 at the end, p. 392b, 12;
Lucian, de mort. Peregr. 43;
Dio Chrysostom; the
Sept. also for
עָנָן a cloud,
Deuteronomy 4:11, etc. and for
עֲרָפֶל 'thick cloud,'
Exodus 20:21, etc.; (
Trench, § c.).)
