Words the Bible translates as dark
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 6 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- skotosσκότοςdarkness: the absence of light, used both for real physical dark and, far more often, for the realm and condition of life cut off from God
- ḥoshekhחֹשֶׁךְdarkness: the absence of light, and by extension the trouble, danger, death, and evil that come with it.
- skoteinosσκοτεινόςdarknot studied yet
- ishonאִישׁוֹןthe pupil of the eye: the dark opening at its center, named as the one spot a person shields without thinking
+1 more meaning
- the black heart of the night: the deepest, darkest point inside a stretch of darkness
- ḥeshkhahחֶשְׁכָהdarknot studied yet
- sheḥarḥoretשְׁחַרְחֹרblackish: dark of skin, tanned by the sun rather than black outright
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