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skotos (skot'-os) ▪ σκότος ▪ G4655 ▪ Uses: 142

darkness (Noun, Masculine; Noun, Neuter)

Matthew 4:16. The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

Matthew 6:23. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

Matthew 8:12. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 22:13. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 25:30. And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 27:45. Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

Mark 15:33. And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

Luke 1:79. To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Luke 11:35. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

Luke 22:53. When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.

Luke 23:44. And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.

John 3:19. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Acts 2:20. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:

Acts 13:11. And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

Acts 26:18. To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

Romans 2:19. And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,

Romans 13:12. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

1 Corinthians 4:5. Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

2 Corinthians 4:6. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 6:14. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Ephesians 5:8. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

Ephesians 5:11. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

Ephesians 6:12. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Colossians 1:13. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

1 Thessalonians 5:4. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

1 Thessalonians 5:5. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

Hebrews 12:18. For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

1 Peter 2:9. 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:

2 Peter 2:17. These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

1 John 1:6. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

Jude 1:13. Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

Genesis 1:2. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Genesis 1:4. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:5. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Genesis 1:18. And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

Exodus 10:21. And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.

Exodus 10:22. And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:

Exodus 14:20. And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.

Deuteronomy 4:11. And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.

Deuteronomy 5:22. These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.

Deuteronomy 28:29. And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.

Joshua 2:5. And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.

2 Samuel 1:9. He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me.

2 Samuel 22:12. And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

2 Samuel 22:29. For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

2 Kings 7:5. And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.

2 Kings 7:7. Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.

Tobit 4:10. For thus thou storest up to thyself a good reward for the day of necessity.

Tobit 14:10. Hearken therefore, my children, to your father: serve the Lord in truth, and seek to do the things that please him:

Esther 1:1. Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces: )

Job 3:4. Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

Job 3:5. Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

Job 3:6. As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

Job 5:14. They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

Job 10:22. A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

Job 12:22. He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

Job 12:25. They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

Job 15:22. He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

Job 15:30. He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

Job 17:12. They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

Job 18:6. The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

Job 18:18. He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Job 19:8. He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

Job 20:26. All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

Job 22:11. Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

Job 23:17. Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

Job 24:14. The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

Job 24:15. The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

Job 24:16. In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

Job 26:10. He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

Job 28:3. He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

Job 29:3. When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

Job 37:15. Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?

Job 38:19. Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

Psalm 18:12. At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

Psalm 18:29. For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

Psalm 35:6. Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

Psalm 55:6. And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

Psalm 82:5. They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

Psalm 88:13. But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.

Psalm 91:6. Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

Psalm 104:20. Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

Psalm 105:28. He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

Psalm 107:10. Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

Psalm 107:14. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

Psalm 112:4. Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

Psalm 139:11. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

Psalm 139:12. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

Proverbs 2:13. Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

Proverbs 7:9. In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

Proverbs 20:9. Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Ecclesiastes 2:13. Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.

Ecclesiastes 2:14. The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.

Ecclesiastes 5:17. All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

Ecclesiastes 6:4. For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

Ecclesiastes 11:8. But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

Wisdom of Solomon 17:2. For while the wicked thought to be able to have dominion over the holy nation, they themselves being fettered with the bonds of darkness, and a long night, shut up in their houses, lay there exiled from the eternal providence.

Wisdom of Solomon 17:16. For if any one were a husbandman, or a shepherd, or a labourer in the field, and was suddenly overtaken, he endured a necessity from which he could not fly.

Wisdom of Solomon 17:20. But over them only was spread a heavy night, an image of that darkness which was to come upon them. But they were to themselves more grievous than the darkness.

Wisdom of Solomon 18:4. The others indeed were worthy to be deprived of light, and imprisoned in darkness, who kept thy children shut up, by whom the pure light of the law was to be given to the world.

Wisdom of Solomon 19:17. For while the elements are changed in themselves, as in an instrument the sound of the quality is changed, yet all keep their sound: which may clearly be perceived by the very sight.

Sirach 23:18. Remember thy father and thy mother, for thou sittest in the midst of great men:

Isaiah 5:20. Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:30. And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

Isaiah 8:22. And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

Isaiah 9:2. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

Isaiah 29:15. Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

Isaiah 29:18. And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

Isaiah 42:7. To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

Isaiah 42:16. And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

Isaiah 45:7. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Isaiah 47:1. Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

Isaiah 47:5. Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

Isaiah 49:9. That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

Isaiah 50:3. I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

Isaiah 50:10. Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.

Isaiah 58:10. And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:

Isaiah 59:9. Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

Isaiah 60:2. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

Jeremiah 13:16. Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

Lamentations 3:2. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

Ezekiel 32:8. All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.

Daniel 2:22. He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.

Daniel 3:72. O ye light and darkness, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Joel 2:2. A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.

Joel 2:31. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

Amos 5:18. Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.

Amos 5:20. Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

Micah 7:8. Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.

Nahum 1:8. But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

Zephaniah 1:15. That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

2 Maccabees 3:27. And Heliodorus suddenly fell to the ground, and they took him up, covered with great darkness, and having put him into a litter, they carried him out.

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