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Darkness (177 Occurrences)
... The plague (the ninth) of darkness in Egypt (Exodus 10:21) is described as darkness
"which may be felt." It covered "all the land of Egypt," so that "they saw ...
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Blackness (13 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. BLACKNESS. (kimririm, "obscurations"; qadhruth,
"darkness"; gnophos, "darkness" zophos "blackness"): Terms rarely used but of ...
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Obscurity (10 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The quality or state of being obscure; darkness;
privacy; inconspicuousness; unintelligibleness; uncertainty. Int. ...
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Gloom (29 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Partial or total darkness; thick shade;
obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight. ...
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Death-shade (16 Occurrences)
... Death-shade (16 Occurrences). Luke 1:79 To give light to those sitting in darkness
and death-shade, To guide our feet to a way of peace.' (YLT). ...
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Shades (29 Occurrences)
... Shades (29 Occurrences). Matthew 4:16 The people who sat in darkness, saw great
light; and to them who sat in the region and shades of death, light hath arisen. ...
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Gross (12 Occurrences)
... of pens. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. GROSS. gros (`araphel): Used
twice with "darkness" in Isaiah 60:2 Jeremiah 13:16. In the ...
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Shines (15 Occurrences)
... day. (WEB WEY DBY NAS). John 1:5 The light shines in the darkness, and the
darkness hasn't overcome it. (WEB WEY NAS RSV NIV). Ephesians ...
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Noon (30 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Noon (30 Occurrences). Matthew 27:45 Now from noon until
three o'clock in the afternoon there was darkness over the whole land; (WEY). ...
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Shineth (13 Occurrences)
... in his day. (KJV ASV WBS). John 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and
the darkness comprehended it not. (KJV ASV WBS). John 5 ...
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Walks (51 Occurrences)
... Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks
in the darkness doesn't know where he is going. (WEB WEY DBY NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Noonday (13 Occurrences)
... Deuteronomy 28:29 and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness,
and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and ...
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Outer (98 Occurrences)
... In Matthew we find it 3 times (8:12; 22:13; 25:30) in "outer darkness" (to skotos
to exoteron), which typifies the utter darkness of the doom of the lost. ...
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Dense (11 Occurrences)
... Matthew 6:23 but if your eyesight is bad, your whole body will be dark. If however
the very light within you is darkness, how dense must the darkness be! (WEY). ...
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Whither (151 Occurrences)
... Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh
in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. (KJV ASV WBS). ...
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Twilight (25 Occurrences)
... nesheph): The twilight of Palestine is of short duration, owing to the low latitude,
there being scarcely more than an hour between sunset and complete darkness...
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Shine (62 Occurrences)
... (KJV ASV). Luke 1:79 to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death;
to guide our feet into the way of peace." (WEB ASV DBY NAS NIV). ...
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Noon-day (8 Occurrences)
... Deuteronomy 28:29 And thou shalt grope at noon-day, as the blind gropeth in darkness,
and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed ...
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Nether (19 Occurrences)
... 2 Peter 2:4 For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down
to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment ...
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Gloominess (2 Occurrences)
... (n.) State of being gloomy. Multi-Version Concordance Gloominess (2 Occurrences).
Joel 2:2 A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. ...
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Reserved (28 Occurrences)
... 2 Peter 2:4 For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down
to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment ...
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Eclipse
... Eclipses were regarded as tokens of God's anger (Joel 3:15; Job 9:7). The darkness
at the crucifixion has been ascribed to an eclipse (Matthew 27:45); but on ...
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Daylight (24 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The light of day as opposed to the darkness of night; the light of the sun,
as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial light. 2. (n.) The eyes. ...
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Blackest (5 Occurrences)
... Blackest (5 Occurrences). 2 Peter 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds driven
by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. ...
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Walketh (62 Occurrences)
... Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh
in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. (KJV ASV WBS). ...
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Black (52 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark
or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds. ...
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Skies (36 Occurrences)
... (WEB JPS ASV BBE YLT NAS RSV). 2 Samuel 22:12 He made darkness pavilions around
himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies. ...
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Covers (50 Occurrences)
... The worm covers them. (WEB). Job 22:11 Or darkness, that thou canst not
see, and abundance of waters cover thee. (See NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Utter (111 Occurrences)
... the center; outer. 3. (a.) Complete; perfect; total; entire; absolute; as,
utter ruin; utter darkness. 4. (a.) Peremptory; unconditional ...
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Shadow (72 Occurrences)
... See Shade. 2. (n.) Darkness; shade; obscurity. 3. (n.) A shaded place; shelter;
protection; security. 4. (n.) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water. ...
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Thick (129 Occurrences)
... 3. (superl.) Dense; not thin; inspissated; as, thick vapors. Also used figuratively;
as, thick darkness. ... Now terror and great darkness fell on him. (See NIV). ...
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Wickedness (232 Occurrences)
... of Isaiah seem to be in a condition beyond which the human heart cannot go: "Woe
unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and ...
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Light (2869 Occurrences)
... the primary material out of which He created the heavens and the earth, and which
lay, until the utterance of that word, in the chaos of darkness and desolation ...
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Evening (163 Occurrences)
... & vb. n.) of Even. 2. (n.) The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning
of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sum. ...
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Ninth (35 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). Matthew 27:45 Now from the sixth hour
there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. ...
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Outside (215 Occurrences)
... Matthew 8:12 while the natural heirs of the Kingdom will be driven out into the
darkness outside: there will be the weeping aloud and the gnashing of teeth ...
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O'clock (16 Occurrences)
... apiece; (WEY). Matthew 27:45 Now from noon until three o'clock in the afternoon
there was darkness over the whole land; (WEY). Matthew 27 ...
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Gnashing (10 Occurrences)
... n.) of Gnash. Multi-Version Concordance Gnashing (10 Occurrences). Matthew 8:12
but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. ...
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Grope (5 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person,
by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel ...
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Gnash (12 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Gnash (12 Occurrences). Matthew 8:12 but the children
of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. ...
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Weeping (237 Occurrences)
... YLT NAS RSV NIV). Matthew 8:12 but the children of the Kingdom will be
thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping ...
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Weep (97 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Weep (97 Occurrences). Matthew 8:12 but the children
of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. ...
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Teeth (50 Occurrences)
... MO Evans. Multi-Version Concordance Teeth (50 Occurrences). Matthew 8:12 but the
children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. ...
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Reveals (14 Occurrences)
... height. (See NIV). Job 12:22 He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and
brings out to light the shadow of death. (See NAS NIV). ...
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Enlighteneth (6 Occurrences)
... Exodus 14:20 and cometh in between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel,
and the cloud and the darkness are, and he enlighteneth the night, and the ...
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Deepest (11 Occurrences)
... Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels who had sinned, but having cast them
down to the deepest pit of gloom has delivered them to chains of darkness to be ...
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Midday (11 Occurrences)
... law. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV). Job 5:14 They meet with darkness in
a the daytime, and grope at midday as in the night. (DBY). ...
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Bad (129 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Matthew 6:23 but if your eyesight is bad, your whole body will be dark. If
however the very light within you is darkness, how dense must the darkness be! ...
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Blinded (15 Occurrences)
... 1 John 2:11 But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness,
and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded ...
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Comprehend (9 Occurrences)
... measureless love of God; and of the inability of the unrenewed heart to know or
perceive the revelation of God made in Christ: "the darkness comprehended it not ...
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Canopy (8 Occurrences)
... Canopy (8 Occurrences). 2 Samuel 22:12 He made darkness pavilions around himself:
gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies. (See RSV NIV). ...
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Attentively (35 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 5:30 And it howleth against it in that day as the howling of a sea, And it
hath looked attentively to the land, And lo, darkness -- distress, And light ...
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Afternoon (9 Occurrences)
... Afternoon (9 Occurrences). Matthew 27:45 Now from noon until three o'clock in
the afternoon there was darkness over the whole land; (WEY). ...
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Sixth (45 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). Matthew 27:45 Now from the sixth hour
there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. ...
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Silenced (19 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 2:9 He keepeth the feet of his saints, but the wicked are silenced in
darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail. (DBY NAS NIV). ...
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Swaddlingband (1 Occurrence)
... The mention of darkness as a "swaddling-band" at the birth of the sea (Job 38:9)
is only a poetic way of saying that the sea, at its creation, was covered with ...
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Shade (67 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays
of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between the ...
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Shined (9 Occurrences)
... 2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath
shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God ...
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Swaddling-band (1 Occurrence)
... The mention of darkness as a "swaddling-band" at the birth of the sea (Job 38:9)
is only a poetic way of saying that the sea, at its creation, was covered with ...
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Clouds (99 Occurrences)
... 2 Peter 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the
blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. (WEB KJV WBS YLT). ...
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Shone (27 Occurrences)
... 2 Corinthians 4:6 seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness,"
who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory ...
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Wrapped (40 Occurrences)
... Deuteronomy 4:11 You came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned
with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness...
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Evil (1503 Occurrences)
... 5:21, 22, 27, 28. "But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full
of darkness" (Matthew 6:23). Words and deeds are coined ...
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Dark (234 Occurrences)
... 3. (a.) Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness;
unrefined; ignorant. ... Max L. Margolis. DARK; DARKNESS. ...
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Lest (282 Occurrences)
... and be saved. (KJV WEY WBS YLT). Luke 11:35 take heed, then, lest the light
that 'is' in thee be darkness; (YLT RSV). Luke 12:58 For ...
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Adversity (54 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV). Isaiah 8:22 And unto the land it looketh
attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! -- Dimness ...
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Fellowship (114 Occurrences)
... Sometimes the idea of communion occurs in relation with abstract ideas or experiences:
"Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness" (Ephesians 5 ...
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Paths (65 Occurrences)
... Job 19:8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my
paths. ... I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. ...
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Stretch (73 Occurrences)
... out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness."
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT). John 21:18 Most certainly ...
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Blind (91 Occurrences)
... Acts 13:11 Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not
seeing the sun for a season!" Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. ...
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Walk (315 Occurrences)
... He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light
of life." (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Waited (72 Occurrences)
... The companies of Sheba waited for them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS). Job 15:22 He
doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword. ...
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Dawn (70 Occurrences)
... The same word is used for evening twilight (1 Samuel 30:17 2 Kings 7:5, 7); penoth
ha-boqer, "the turning" of the morning, the change from darkness to light ...
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Deeds (309 Occurrences)
... John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men
loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. ...
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Knoweth (152 Occurrences)
... Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh
in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. (KJV ASV WBS). ...
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Turns (80 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 22:29 For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness.
(See NIV). ... My God will light up my darkness. (See NIV). ...
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Rises (56 Occurrences)
... (WEB NAS RSV NIV). Psalms 112:4 Light hath risen in darkness to the upright,
Gracious, and merciful, and righteous. (See NAS RSV). ...
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Sitting (201 Occurrences)
... Psalm 1:1; Psalm 26:5 Luke 13:29 Revelation 3:21); (2) to sit in the dust indicates
poverty and contempt (Isaiah 47:1), in darkness, ignorance (Matthew 4:16 ...
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Sheol (64 Occurrences)
... ABADDON (which see) or Destruction (Job 26:6; Job 28:22 Proverbs 15:11), the place
of "silence" (Psalm 94:17; Psalm 115:17), "the land of darkness and the ...
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