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ζόφος

Strong’s: G2217

Associated OET lemmas: ζόφος

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, m.

Inflections: ζόφος; -ου

Sense 1: gloom, darkness

Semantic entry: 14.57

Semantic domains: Physical Events and States

Subdomains: Darkness

Definition: a condition of darkness associated with feelings of despair and foreboding

Notes: In OET HEB 12:18 γνόφος ‘darkness’ (14.53: γνόφος / 14.53: σκοτία / 14.53: σκότος) and ζόφος may be combined to form a phrase such as ‘fearful darkness’ or ‘darkness that causes fear’ or ‘fear because of darkness.’

Show passage in OET: HEB 12:18

OET-RV HEB 12:18

18 You all haven’t come to what can be touched and to a blazing fire and to darkness and to gloom and to a storm (like Israelis encountered at Mt. Sinay)

OET-LV HEB 12:18

18 For/Because not you _all _have _approached, being _touched and having _been _burned with _fire, and to _darkness, and to _darkness, and to _whirlwind,

Show passage in OET: PE2 2:4

OET-RV PE2 2:4

4 Because if God didn’t spare the messengers when they sinned, but chained them in darkness and kept them to be delivered to judgement in due course,

OET-LV PE2 2:4

4 For/Because if the god not spared of_the_messengers having _sinned, but having _committed _to_the_underworld them to _pits of _darkness, gave _over them for judgement being _kept,

Jump to OET HEB 12:18 section.

Jump to OET PE2 2:4 section.

All 3 recorded passages for this sense

HEB: OET HEB 12:18

PE2: OET PE2 2:4

JDE: OET JDE 1:6

Sense 2: gloomy hell, black darkness

Semantic entry: 1.24

Semantic domains: Geographical Objects and Features

Subdomains: Regions Below the Surface of the Earth

Definition: (an idiom, literally: the gloom of darkness) the dark, gloomy nature of hell as a place of punishment

Collocations: ὁ ζόφος τοῦ σκότους

Show passage in OET: PE2 2:17

OET-RV PE2 2:17

17 These men are like waterless fountains and like mists driven by storms, and the gloomy darkness is reserved for them

OET-LV PE2 2:17

17 These are waterless springs, and mists being _driven by storm, for _whom the darkness of_ the _darkness has _been _kept.

Show passage in OET: JDE 1:13

OET-RV JDE 1:13

13 like wild waves in the ocean that foam in their own shame or like unreliable wandering stars that are already doomed to the darkest darkness in the next age.

OET-LV JDE 1:13

13 wild waves of_the_sea foaming _out the shame of _themselves, wandering stars, to _whom the darkness of_ the _darkness has _been _kept to the_age.

Jump to OET PE2 2:17 section.

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