191 occurrences in 12 translations

'Darkness' in the Bible

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

And it cometh to pass -- the sun hath gone in, and thick darkness hath been -- and lo, a furnace of smoke, and a lamp of fire, which hath passed over between those pieces.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.

And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:

And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.

And Jehovah said to Moses, Lo, I will come to thee in the cloud's thick darkness, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee also for ever. And Moses told the words of the people to Jehovah.

And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.

These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.

And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;

And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.

And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.

The next morning Saul put the men into three companies; and they entered the [Ammonites’] camp during the [darkness of the early] morning watch and killed the Ammonites until the heat of the day; and the survivors were scattered, and no two of them were left together.

David’s men said to him, “Behold, this is the day of which the Lord said to you, ‘Behold, I will hand over your enemy to you, and you shall do to him as seems good to you.’” Then David arose [in the darkness] and stealthily cut off the hem (edge) of Saul’s robe.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.

And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

So the Arameans got up and ran away in the gathering darkness. They left behind their tents, horses, and donkeys just as they were and fled for their lives!

When these lepers came to the edge of the camp, they went into one tent and ate and drank, and carried away from there silver, gold, and clothing, and went and hid them. Then they went back and entered another tent and carried [some valuable things] from there also, and went and hid them.

Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

If I lie down, I say, When shall I rise up, and the darkness be gone? and I am full of tossings until the dawn.

Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

Your life will be brighter than noonday;its darkness will be like the morning.

They grope around in darkness without light;He makes them stagger like drunken men. >

He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

“My face is flushed from weeping,And deep darkness is on my eyelids,

If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

Yet you say: “What does God know?Can He judge through thick darkness?

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.

As a group, deep darkness is their morning time; fear that lives in darkness is their friend."

He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

Through want and through barren hunger they are gnawing [in the] dry region [in the] darkness of desolation and waste.

"In growing darkness, I walked without sunlight; I stood in the congregation to cry for help.

There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.

When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?

Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

Look, the wicked have bent their bow and placed their arrow on the string, to shoot from the darkness at the upright in heart.

Consider and answer me, O Lord my God;Give light (life) to my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death,

He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

Their way is darkness and slipperiness, And a messenger of Jehovah their pursuer.

But You have crushed us in a haunt of jackalsand have covered us with deepest darkness.

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

Will Your wonders be known in the darknessor Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?

Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

My frame was not hidden from You,When I was being formed in secret,And intricately and skillfully formed [as if embroidered with many colors] in the depths of the earth.

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

In the twilight -- in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness.

Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.

The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.

All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

Nevertheless the darkness shall not be as when the distress was in the land, at the time he at first lightly, and afterwards heavily, visited the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:

[there is] an outcry over the wine in the streets. All joy turns into {darkness}; the joy of the earth disappears.

In that day the Lord will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpentWith His fierce and great and mighty sword [rescuing Israel from her enemy],Even Leviathan the twisted serpent;And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
חידה 
Chiydah 
Usage: 17

מחשׁך 
Machshak 
Usage: 7

ערפל 
`araphel 
Usage: 16

אפל 
'aphel 
Usage: 1

אפל 
'ophel 
Usage: 9

אפלה 
'aphelah 
Usage: 10

דּרקון 
Darqown 
Usage: 2

חשׁוך 
Chashowk (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

חשׁך 
Chashak 
Usage: 17

חשׁך 
Choshek 
Usage: 78

חשׁיכה חשׁכה 
Chashekah 
Usage: 5

חשׁרה 
Chashrah 
Usage: 1

כּהה 
Kahah 
Usage: 8

כּהה 
Keheh 
Usage: 9

מאפל 
Ma'aphel 
Usage: 1

מאפליהo 
Ma'phel@yah 
Usage: 1

נשׁף 
Nesheph 
twilight , night , dark , dawning of the morning, dawning of the day
Usage: 12

עיפה 
`eyphah 
Usage: 2

עלטה 
`alatah 
Usage: 4

ערב 
`arab 
Usage: 3

עתם 
`atham 
Usage: 1

צלל 
Tsalal 
began to be dark , shadowing
Usage: 2

קדר 
Qadar 
Usage: 17

קפא 
Qapha' 
Usage: 4

αἴνιγμα 
Ainigma 
Usage: 1

αὐχμηρός 
Auchmeros 
Usage: 1

ζόφος 
Zophos 
Usage: 4

σκοτεινός 
Skoteinos 
Usage: 0

σκοτία 
Skotia 
Usage: 10

σκοτίζω 
Skotizo 
Usage: 6

σκότος 
Skotos 
Usage: 23

σκοτόω 
Skotoo 
Usage: 1

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