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
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darknes: nor for the destruction, that wasteth at noone-day.
Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
Clouds and darkenesse are round about him: righteousnesse and iudgement are the habitation of his throne.
1611 marginal noteOr, establishment.
1611 marginal notePsal.89.15.
Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
Thou makest darknesse, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forrest doe creepe forth.
1611 marginal noteHeb. all the beasts thereof doe trample on the forrest.
He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
Hee sent darknesse, and made it darke: and they rebelled not against his word.
1611 marginal noteExod. 10.22.
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
Such as sit in darknesse and in the shadowe of death: being bound in affliction and yron:
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
Hee brought them out of darkenesse, and the shadowe of death: and brake their bands insunder.
Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
Unto the vpright there ariseth light in the darknesse: hee is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
If I say, Surely the darkenes shall couer me: euen the night shall bee light about me.
1611 marginal noteIob 26.6. heb.4.13.
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
Yea the darkenesse hideth not from thee, but the night shineth as the day: the darknes and the light are both alike to thee.
1611 marginal noteHeb. darkeneth not.
1611 marginal noteHeb. as is the darkenes so is the light
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
For the enemie hath persecuted my soule, he hath smitten my life downe to the ground: hee hath made mee to dwell in darkenesse, as those that haue bene long dead.
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