Black, Blackness - Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Black, Blackness

[ 1,,G3189, melas ]
black," Matthew 5:36; Revelation 6:5, Revelation 6:12, is derived from a root mal---, meaning "to be dirty;" hence Latin, malus, "bad." See INK.

[ 2,Noun,G1105, gnophos ]
Hebrews 12:18, "blackness, gloom," seems to have been associated with the idea of a tempest. It is related to skotos, "darkness," in that passage, and in the Sept. of Exodus 10:22; Deuteronomy 4:11; Zephaniah 1:15.

[ 3,Noun,G2217, zophos ]
akin to No. 1, especially "the gloom of the regions of the lost," is used four times; 2 Peter 2:4, "darkness" (RV); 2 Peter 2:17, RV, "blackness," for AV, "mist;" Jude 1:6, "darkness;" Jude 1:13, "blackness," suggesting a kind of emanation. See DARKNESS, MIST.

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