G2217

ζόφος

zophosG:N-M

darkness

ζόφος, -ου, ὁ (akin to γνόφος, which see), [in Sm.: Exo.10:22, Job.28:3, Psa.11:2 91:6, Isa.59:9 * ;] in Hom, the gloom of the under-world; hence, darkness, deep gloom (poët. and late prose writers): Heb.12:18, 2Pe.2:4 2:17, Ju 6 13.† ὁμίχλη, -ης, ἡ, [in LXX for עֲרָפֶל, etc. ;] a mist: 2Pe.2:17 SYN.: νέφος, νεφέλη, both thicker than ὁ (AS)

The KJV translates G2217 in the following manner:

darkness (4x), blackness (2x), mist (2x)

Full Thayer's lexicon entry

ζόφος — zóphos

ζόφος, ζόφου, ὁ (akin to γνόφος, δνόφος, νέφος, κνέφας, see Alexander Buttmann (1873) Lexil. ii., p. 266 (Fishlake's translation, p. 378); cf. Curtius, p. 706), darkness, blackness: Heb 12:18 L T Tr WH; as in Homer Iliad 15, 191; 21, 56, etc., used of the darkness of the nether world (cf. Grimm on Wis 17:14), 2Pe 2:4; Jud 1:6; ζόφος τοῦ σκότους (cf. חֹשֶׁך־אֲפֵלָה, Exo 10:22), the blackness of (i. e. the densest) darkness, 2Pe 2:17; Jud 1:13. (Cf. Trench, § c.)

5 occurrences

Hebrews (1), II Peter (2), Jude (2)