'Dark' in the Bible

When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch passed between the animal parts.

His eyes will be dark from wine, and his teeth white from milk.

They covered the surface of all the ground, so that the ground became dark with them, and they ate all the vegetation of the ground and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green remained on the trees or on anything that grew in the fields throughout the whole land of Egypt.

It came between the Egyptian camp and the Israelite camp; it was a dark cloud and it lit up the night so that one camp did not come near the other the whole night.

You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it and yet dark with a thick cloud.

Your fathers cried out for help to the Lord; he made the area between you and the Egyptians dark, and then drowned them in the sea. You witnessed with your very own eyes what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness for a long time.

So she slept beside him until morning. She woke up while it was still dark. Boaz thought, "No one must know that a woman visited the threshing floor."

Meanwhile the sky was covered with dark clouds, the wind blew, and there was a heavy rainstorm. Ahab rode toward Jezreel.

They are dark because of ice; snow is piled up over them.

The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.

why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

My skin has turned dark on me; my body is hot with fever.

May their path be dark and slippery, as the Lord's angel chases them!

Remember your covenant promises, for the dark regions of the earth are full of places where violence rules.

In your distress you called out and I rescued you. I answered you from a dark thundercloud. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. (Selah)

They neither know nor understand. They stumble around in the dark, while all the foundations of the earth crumble.

You place me in the lowest regions of the pit, in the dark places, in the watery depths.

Are your amazing deeds experienced in the dark region, or your deliverance in the land of oblivion?

Dark clouds surround him; equity and justice are the foundation of his throne.

You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.

He made it dark; they did not disobey his orders.

even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.

Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.

who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways,

in the twilight, the evening, in the dark of the night.

before the sun and the light of the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds disappear after the rain;

The Beloved to the Maidens: I am dark but lovely, O maidens of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Qedar, lovely like the tent curtains of Salmah.

Do not stare at me because I am dark, for the sun has burned my skin. My brothers were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards. Alas, my own vineyard I could not keep!

Those who get up early to drink beer are as good as dead, those who keep drinking long after dark until they are intoxicated with wine.

You will say to the prisoners, 'Come out,' and to those who are in dark dungeons, 'Emerge.' They will graze beside the roads; on all the slopes they will find pasture.

You people of this generation, listen to what the Lord says. "Have I been like a wilderness to you, Israel? Have I been like a dark and dangerous land to you? Why then do you say, 'We are free to wander. We will not come to you any more?'

So the paths they follow will be dark and slippery. They will stumble and fall headlong. For I will bring disaster on them. A day of reckoning is coming for them." The Lord affirms it!

He said to me, "Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chamber of his idolatrous images? For they think, 'The Lord does not see us! The Lord has abandoned the land!'"

While they are watching, raise your baggage onto your shoulder and carry it out in the dark. You must cover your face so that you cannot see the ground because I have made you an object lesson to the house of Israel."

In Tahpanhes the day will be dark when I break the yoke of Egypt there. Her confident pride will cease within her; a cloud will cover her, and her daughters will go into captivity.

As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a cloudy, dark day.

The earth quakes before them; the sky reverberates. The sun and the moon grow dark; the stars refuse to shine.

In that day," says the sovereign Lord, "I will make the sun set at noon, and make the earth dark in the middle of the day.

Therefore night will fall, and you will receive no visions; it will grow dark, and you will no longer be able to read the omens. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn to darkness over their heads.

He marches out in the whirlwind and the raging storm; dark storm clouds billow like dust under his feet.

That day will be a day of God's anger, a day of distress and hardship, a day of devastation and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and dark skies,