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Old & New Testament Greek Lexical DictionaryGreek Lexicon

Strong's #1105 - γνόφος

Transliteration

gnóphos

Phonetics

gnof'-os

Origin

akin to (G3509)

Parts of Speech

masculine noun

TDNT

None

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's

darkness, gloom

Hebrew Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 651 ‑ אָפֵל (aw‑fale'); 2822 ‑ חשֶׁךְ (kho‑shek'); 5492 ‑ סוּפָה (soo‑faw'); 5591 ‑ סַעַר (sah'‑ar, seh‑aw‑raw'); 6049 ‑ עָנַן (aw‑nan'); 6205 ‑ עֲרָפֶל (ar‑aw‑fel');

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

ASV (1)

Hebrews 1

BSB (1)

Hebrews 1

CSB (1)

Hebrews 1

ESV (1)

Hebrews 1

KJV (1)

Hebrews 1

LEB (0)

The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (1)

Hebrews 1

N95 (1)

Hebrews 1

NAS (1)

Hebrews 1

NLT (1)

Hebrews 1

WEB (1)

Hebrews 1

YLT (1)

Hebrews 1

ASV (1)

unto blackness 1

BSB (1)

to darkness 1

CSB (1)

gloom 1

ESV (1)

darkness 1

KJV (1)

blackness 1

LEB (0)

The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (1)

darkness 1

N95 (1)

darkness 1

NAS (1)

darkness 1

NLT (1)

darkness 1

WEB (1)

to blackness 1

YLT (1)

to blackness 1

RAH

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

SWE

N-DSM 1

ANT

N-DSM 1

BEZ

N-DSM 1

BGB

N-DSM 1

BMT

N-DSM 1

BYZ

N-DSM 1

ELZ

N-DSM 1

NA26

N-DSM 1

SBL

N-DSM 1

SCV

N-DSM 1

STV

N-DSM 1

TIS

N-DSM 1

TRG

N-DSM 1

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

γνόφ-ος, later form for δνόφος, darkness, Chron.Lind. D. 28, Hebrews 12:18, D.Chr. 34.37 (pl.), Luc. Peregr. 43: pl., storm-clouds, Arist. Mu. 391b12.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

γνόφος, γνόφου, ὁ (for the earlier (and poetic) δνόφος, akin to νέφος (so Alexander Buttmann (1873) Lexil. 2:266; but see Curtius, pp. 704f, 706, cf. 535; Vanicek, p. 1070)), darkness, gloom: Hebrews 12:18. (Aristotle, de mund. c. 2 at the end, p. 392b, 12; Lucian, de mort. Peregr. 43; Dio Chrysostom; the Sept. also for עָנָן a cloud, Deuteronomy 4:11, etc. and for עֲרָפֶל 'thick cloud,' Exodus 20:21, etc.; (Trench, § c.).)

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

γνόφος , -ου , ὁ

(later form of δν -),

[in LXX for H651, H6205, etc.;]

darkness, gloom (including "an element of tempest," Tr., Syn., § c): Hebrews 12:18.†

SYN.: ἀχλύς G887, ζόφος G2217, σκότος G4655 (Tr., l.c.; DB, i, 457a).

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

Vettius Valens, p. 145.16, ἀστασία ἀνέμων γίνεται καὶ γνόφος . The use of ὁ γνόφος for the earlier and poetic ὁ δνόφος begins with Aristotle.

List of Word Forms

γνόφον γνόφος γνόφου γνοφω γνόφω γνόφῳ γνοφώδεις γνοφώδης εγνόφωσεν gnopho gnophō gnóphoi gnóphōi