Lexicon :: Strong's G1105 - gnophos

So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days.

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.

And the people remained standing at a distance as Moses approached the total darkness where God was.

“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.

“Your ancestors cried out to the LORD, so he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea over them, engulfing them. Your own eyes saw what I did to Egypt. After that, you lived in the wilderness a long time.

He bent the heavens and came down,

total darkness beneath his feet.

For you, Lord GOD, have set them apart as your inheritance

from all peoples of the earth,

as you spoke through your servant Moses

when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.

Then Solomon said:

The LORD said he would dwell in total darkness,

May darkness and gloom reclaim it,

and a cloud settle over it.

May what darkens the day terrify it.

He batters me with a whirlwind

and multiplies my wounds without cause.

If I await Sheol as my home,

spread out my bed in darkness,

Yet you say, “What does God know?

Can he judge through total darkness?

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

by the thick darkness that covers my face.

Terrors overtake him like a flood;

a storm wind sweeps him away at night.

He bent the heavens and came down,

total darkness beneath his feet.

Clouds and total darkness surround him;

righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud,

and your sins like a mist.

Return to me,

for I have redeemed you.

For look, darkness will cover the earth,

and total darkness the peoples;

but the LORD will shine over you,

and his glory will appear over you.

Therefore, their way will seem

like slippery paths in the gloom.

They will be driven away and fall down there,

for I will bring disaster on them,

the year of their punishment.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

“As a shepherd looks for his sheep on the day he is among his scattered flock, so I will look for my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and total darkness.

a day of darkness and gloom,

a day of clouds and total darkness,

like the dawn spreading over the mountains;

a great and strong people appears,

such as never existed in ages past

and never will again

in all the generations to come.

Won’t the day of the LORD

be darkness rather than light,

even gloom without any brightness in it?

That day is a day of wrath,

a day of trouble and distress,

a day of destruction and desolation,

a day of darkness and gloom,

a day of clouds and total darkness,