Lexicon :: Strong's G4655 - skotos

Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.

to rule the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, and there will be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt.”

It came between the Egyptian and Israelite forces. There was cloud and darkness, it lit up the night, and neither group came near the other all night long.

“You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire into the heavens and enveloped in a totally black cloud.

“The LORD spoke these commands in a loud voice to your entire assembly from the fire, cloud, and total darkness on the mountain; he added nothing more. He wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

“so that at noon you will grope as a blind person gropes in the dark. You will not be successful in anything you do. You will only be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will help you.

“At nightfall, when the city gate was about to close, the men went out, and I don’t know where they were going. Chase after them quickly, and you can catch up with them! ”

“Then he begged me, ‘Stand over me and kill me, for I’m mortally wounded,[fn] but my life still lingers.’

He made darkness a canopy around him,

a gathering[fn] of water and thick clouds.

LORD, you are my lamp;

the LORD illuminates my darkness.

So the diseased men got up at twilight to go to the Arameans’ camp. When they came to the camp’s edge, they discovered that no one was there,

So they had gotten up and fled at twilight, abandoning their tents, horses, and donkeys. The camp was intact, and they had fled for their lives.

If only that day had turned to darkness!

May God above not care about it,

or light shine on it.

They encounter darkness by day,

and they grope at noon

as if it were night.

“It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,

gloomy and chaotic,

where even the light is like[fn] the darkness.”

He reveals mysteries from the darkness

and brings the deepest darkness into the light.

They grope around in darkness without light;

he makes them stagger like a drunkard.

He doesn’t believe he will return from darkness;

he is destined for the sword.

He will not escape from the darkness;

flames will wither his shoots,

and by the breath of God’s mouth, he will depart.

They turned night into day

and made light seem near in the face of darkness.

The light in his tent grows dark,

and the lamp beside him is put out.

He is driven from light to darkness

and chased from the inhabited world.

He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass through;

he has veiled my paths with darkness.

Total darkness is reserved for his treasures.

A fire unfanned by human hands will consume him;

it will feed on what is left in his tent.

or darkness, so you cannot see,

and a flood of water covers you.

Yet I am not destroyed[fn] by the darkness,

by the thick darkness that covers my face.

The murderer rises at dawn

to kill the poor and needy,

and by night he becomes a thief.

He laid out the horizon on the surface of the waters

at the boundary between light and darkness.

A miner puts an end to the darkness;

he probes[fn] the deepest recesses

for ore in the gloomy darkness.

when his lamp shone above my head,

and I walked through darkness by his light!

Do you know how God directs his clouds

or makes their lightning flash?

Where is the road to the home of light?

Do you know where darkness lives,

He made darkness his hiding place,

dark storm clouds his canopy around him.

LORD, you light my lamp;

my God illuminates my darkness.

Let their way be dark and slippery,

with the angel of the LORD pursuing them.

Fear and trembling grip me;

horror has overwhelmed me.

They do not know or understand;

they wander in darkness.

All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Will your wonders be known in the darkness

or your righteousness in the land of oblivion?

the plague that stalks in darkness,

or the pestilence that ravages at noon.

You bring darkness, and it becomes night,

when all the forest animals stir.

He sent darkness, and it became dark —

for did they not defy his commands?

Others sat in darkness and gloom[fn] —

prisoners in cruel chains —