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Strong's #1105 - γνόφος
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- darkness, gloom
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γνόφ-ος, later form for δνόφος, darkness, Chron.Lind. D. 28, Hebrews 12:18, D.Chr. 34.37 (pl.), Luc. Peregr. 43: pl., storm-clouds, Arist. Mu. 391b12.
γνόφος, γνόφου, ὁ (for the earlier (and poetic) δνόφος, akin to νέφος (so Alexander Buttmann (1873) Lexil. 2:266; but see Curtius, pp. 704f, 706, cf. 535; Vanicek, p. 1070)), darkness, gloom: Hebrews 12:18. (Aristotle, de mund. c. 2 at the end, p. 392b, 12; Lucian, de mort. Peregr. 43; Dio Chrysostom; the Sept. also for עָנָן a cloud, Deuteronomy 4:11, etc. and for עֲרָפֶל 'thick cloud,' Exodus 20:21, etc.; (Trench, § c.).)
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γνόφος , -ου , ὁ
(later form of δν -),
[in LXX for H651, H6205, etc.;]
darkness, gloom (including "an element of tempest," Tr., Syn., § c): Hebrews 12:18.†
SYN.: ἀχλύς G887, ζόφος G2217, σκότος G4655 (Tr., l.c.; DB, i, 457a).
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Vettius Valens, p. 145.16, ἀστασία ἀνέμων γίνεται καὶ γνόφος . The use of ὁ γνόφος for the earlier and poetic ὁ δνόφος begins with Aristotle.
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