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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
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Thompson Chain Reference
• Light-Darkness
• Darkness
• Dark Way
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The Topic Concordance
• Darkness
Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Darkness, Eclipse?
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Darkness
Dictionaries
American Tract Society
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Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
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Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
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Charles Buck Dictionary
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Darkness
Fausset Bible Dictionary
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Holman Bible Dictionary
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
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• Dark Saying
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Light and Darkness
• Darkness (2)
• Darkness
King James Dictionary
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• Dark
Morrish Bible Dictionary
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Rulers of the World of This Darkness
• Prince of Darkness
• Darkness, Prince of
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
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Smith Bible Dictionary
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Dark, Darken, Darkly, Darkness
Wilson's Bible Types
• Dark (Darkness)
Webster Dictionary
• Pitch-Dark
• Darkness
• Darkful
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Darkness
Encyclopedias
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Dark Sayings
• Dark; Darkness
• Sayings, Dark
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
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Lexicons
• ܚܶܫܽܘܟ݂ܳܐ
• ܚܫܶܟ݂
• ܥܰܡܽܘܛܳܐ
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Berry's NT Synonyms
• Darkness
• Aenigma; or Dark Saying
• αὐχμηρός
• γνόφος
• ἔννυχος
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• אָפֵל
• אֹפֶל
• אֲפֵלָה
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Trench's NT Synonyms
• Darkness

Darkness. Darkness is spoken of as encompassing the actual presence of God, as that out of which he speaks, - the envelope, as it were, of divine glory. Exodus 20:21; 1 Kings 8:12. The plague of darkness in Egypt was miraculous.

The darkness "over all the land," Matthew 27:45, attending the crucifixion has been attributed to an eclipse, but was undoubtedly miraculous, as no eclipse of the sun could have taken place at that time, the moon being at the full at the time of the Passover.

Darkness is also, as in the expression "land of darkness," used for the state of the dead, Job 10:21-22, and frequently, figuratively, for ignorance and unbelief, as the privation of spiritual light. John 1:5; John 3:19.