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ζόφος

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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
ζόφος, ου, ὁ
Greek transliteration: 
zophos
Simplified transliteration: 
zophos
Numbers
Strong's number: 
2217
GK Number: 
2432
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
5
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
n-2a
Gloss: 
blackness, darkness, gloom
Definition: 
gloom, thick darkness, Heb. 12:18; 2 Pet. 2:4, 17; Jude 6, 13*

Greek-English Concordance for ζόφος

Hebrews 12:18 For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom (zophō | ζόφῳ | dat sg masc), and a whirlwind;
2 Peter 2:4 For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned but cast them into hell, committing them to chains of utter darkness (zophou | ζόφου | gen sg masc), there to be kept until the judgment;
2 Peter 2:17 These people are wells without water, mists driven by a squall. For them the gloom (zophos | ζόφος | nom sg masc) of darkness has been reserved.
Jude 1:6 And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in utter (zophon | ζόφον | acc sg masc) darkness (zophon | ζόφον | acc sg masc) for the judgment of the great day.
Jude 1:13 wild waves of the sea, casting up their shameful deeds like foam; wandering stars for whom the gloom (zophos | ζόφος | nom sg masc) of utter darkness has been reserved forever.