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Black, Blackness

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: μέλας

(Strong's #3189 — Adjective — melas — mel'-as )

"black," Matthew 5:36; Revelation 6:5,12 , is derived from a root mal---, meaning "to be dirty;" hence Latin, malus, "bad." See INK.

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Hebrews 12:18 , "blackness, gloom," seems to have been associated with the idea of a tempest. It is related to skotos, "darkness," in that passage, and in the Sept. of Exodus 10:22; Deuteronomy 4:11; Zephaniah 1:15 .

3: ζόφος

(Strong's #2217 — Noun Masculine — zophos — dzof'-os )

akin to No. 1, especially "the gloom of the regions of the lost," is used four times; 2 Peter 2:4 , "darkness" (RV); 2 Peter 2:17 , RV, "blackness," for AV, "mist;" Jude 1:6 , "darkness;" Jude 1:13 , "blackness," suggesting a kind of emanation. See DARKNESS , MIST.

Bibliography Information
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Black, Blackness'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​b/black-blackness.html. 1940.
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