zofos

Strong’sG2217

darkness, murkiness

stem zof-5 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books4 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

** ζόφος, -ου, ὁ

(akin to γνόφος, q.v.), [in Sm.: Ex 10:22, Jb 28:3, Ps 10(11):2 90(91):6, Is 59:9*;]

in Hom. the gloom of the under-world; hence, darkness, deep gloom (poët. and late prose writers): He 12:18, II Pe 2:4, 17, Ju 6, 13.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2217 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saiddzof'-os

gloom (as shrouding like a cloud)

Fromakin to the base of G3509;

King Jamesblackness, darkness, mist.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ζόφος, ὁ,
nether darkness, ἱεμένων Ἔρεβόσδε ὑπὸ ζόφον NT+8th c.BC+; Ἀΐδης δ᾽ ἔλαχε ζόφον ἠερόεντα obtained the realms of gloom for his share, Refs 8th c.BC+
2 generally, gloom, darkness, NT+8th c.BC+; χειμέριος ζ. the gloom of winter, Refs 5th c.BC+
II the dark quarter, i.e. the West, ἤδη γὰρ φάος οἴχεθ᾽ ὑπὸ ζόφον Refs 8th c.BC+; ποτὶ ζόφον, opposed to πρὸς ἠῶ τ᾽ ἠέλιόν τε, Refs 8th c.BC+ (the North accusative to Refs 1st c.BC+; Γαδείρων τὸ πρὸς ζόφον to the west of.., Refs 5th c.BC+ —poetical and later Prose. (Prob. _cognate_ with ζέφυρος.)

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

darkness2×gloom2×blackness1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	zofos2×ζόφος	zofois
object accusative	zofon1×ζόφον	zofoin
direct address vocative	zofor	zofoir
of, belonging to genitive	zofou1×ζόφου	zofoiu
to, for dative	zofo1×ζόφῳ	zofoi

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

zofstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

zofo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

5 occurrences, every one of them listed

zofos“gloom”subjectnominative singular2×

2 Peter 2:17“gloom”… homichlais hupo lailapau elaunorōntais, hoi tos zofos teu skoteu tērotē.… water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.

Jude 1:13“blackness”… heauteiu aischunain, asterois planētois hoi tos zofos teu skoteu eis aiōnon tērotē.… wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.

zofon“darkness”objectaccusative singular1×

Jude 1:6… krisian megau hēmerau desmoi aidioi hupo zofon tēratē;… has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great …

zofou“darkness”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

2 Peter 2:4… angeloiu hamartarantoiu ouk feideta, alla seirai zofou tartararantos paradōata eis krisian tērorōntoin,… hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

zofo“gloom”to, fordative singular1×

Hebrews 12:18… kai kaiorēnte pure kai gnofo kai zofo kai thuella… is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;