KJV dictionary & concordance
Black or deep darkness; a darkened appearance.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Job 3:5
Complete exact-word concordance
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Let darkenes and the shadowe of death staine it, let a cloud dwell vpon it, let the blacknes of the day terrifie it.
1611 marginal noteOr, challenge it.
1611 marginal noteOr, let them terrifie it, as those who haue a bitter day.
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
I clothe the heauens with blackenesse, and I make sackcloth their couering.
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blacknesse.
1611 marginal noteHeb. pot.
She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
Shee is emptie, and voide, and waste, and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much paine is in all loynes, and the faces of them all gather blacknesse.
1611 marginal noteIsai.13.7, 8.
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
For yee are not come vnto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor vnto blacknesse, and darknes, and tempest,
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Raging waues of the sea, foming out their owne shame, wandring stars, to whom is reserued the blacknesse of darkenesse for euer.
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