γνόφος
darkness
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G1105 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Hebrews 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun γνοφος centers on the idea of “darkness.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Greek New Testament. Hebrews dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Found nowhere else but Hebrews 12:18. Sharing its root, it stands alongside νεφος, ζοφος and νεφελη. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1105 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Hebrews 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Hebrews 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Blackness 1×
- American Standard Version: Blackness 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Darkness 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Darkness 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1105 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1105 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1105 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1105 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- darkness, gloom
Word origin
Derived from νεφος (néphos) (G3509) — cloud.
Akin to G3509 ; gloom (as of a storm): - blackness.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1105, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word γνοφος appears 25 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 24 verses in 14 books.
- 25
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 24
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 14 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 14 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 10:22 γνόφος
- Deuteronomy 4:11 γνόφος
- Joshua 24:7 γνόφος
- 2 Samuel 22:10 γνόφος
- 1 Kings 8:53 γνόφος
- 2 Chronicles 6:1 γνόφος
- Job 3:5 γνόφος
- Psalms 17:10 γνόφος
- Isaiah 44:22 γνόφος
- Jeremiah 23:12 γνόφος
- Ezekiel 34:12 γνόφος
- Joel 2:2 γνόφος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1105) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 10:22 γνόφος Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.
- Exodus 14:20 γνόφος It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and the one didn't come near the other all the night.
- Exodus 20:21 γνόφος The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
- Deuteronomy 4:11 γνόφος You came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
- Deuteronomy 5:22 γνόφος These words Yahweh spoke to all your assembly on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. He wrote them on two tables of stone, and gave them to me.
- Joshua 24:7 γνόφος When they cried out to Yahweh, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and you lived in the wilderness many days.
- 2 Samuel 22:10 γνόφος He bowed the heavens also, and came down; Thick darkness was under his feet.
- 1 Kings 8:53 γνόφος For you did separate them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 6:1 γνόφος Then spoke Solomon, Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
- Job 3:5 γνόφος Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
- Job 9:17 γνόφος For he breaks me with a tempest, Multiplies my wounds without cause.
- Job 17:13 γνόφος If I look for Sheol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness,
- Job 22:13 γνόφος You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
- Job 23:17 γνόφος Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
- Job 27:20 γνόφος Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest steals him away in the night.
- Psalms 17:10 γνόφος They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.
- Psalms 96:2 γνόφος Sing to Yahweh! Bless his name! Proclaim his salvation from day to day!
- Isaiah 44:22 γνόφος I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins: return to me; for I have redeemed you.
- Isaiah 60:2 γνόφος For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.
- Jeremiah 23:12 γνόφος Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 34:12 γνόφος As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
- Joel 2:2 γνόφος A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, A great and strong people; There has never been the like, Neither will there be any more after them, Even to the years of many generations.
- Amos 5:20 γνόφος Will the day of Yahweh not be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
- Zephaniah 1:15 γνόφος That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1105) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
