KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Absence of light. Sense 2: Obscurity, ignorance, distress, or moral evil by figure.
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Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 1:2
Complete exact-word concordance
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,
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
But yee are a chosen generation, a royall Priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people, that yee should shewe forth the praises of him, who hath called you out of darknes into his marueilous light:
1611 marginal noteOr, a purchased people.
1611 marginal noteOr, vertues
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
For if God spared not the Angels that sinned, but cast them downe to hell, and deliuered them into chaines of darkenesse, to be reserued vnto iudgment:
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
These are welles without water, cloudes that are caried with a tempest, to whom the mist of darkenesse is reserued for euer.
This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
This then is the message which we haue heard of him, and declare vnto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkenesse at all.
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
If we say that we haue felowship with him, and walke in darkenesse, we lie, and doe not the trueth.
Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
Againe, a new commandement I write vnto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkenesse is past, and the true light now shineth.
He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkenesse euen vntill now.
But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
But he that hateth his brother, is in darknesse, and walketh in darknesse, and knoweth not whither hee goeth, because that darknesse hath blinded his eyes.
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
And the Angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserued in euerlasting chaines vnder darkenesse, vnto the iudgement of the great day.
1611 marginal noteOr, principalitie.
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