G4653
σκοτία
darkness
σκοτία, -ας, ἡ [in LXX: Job.28:3 (אֹפֶל), Mic.3:6 (חָשַׁךְ), Isa.16:3 * ;] in late writers = σκότος, darkness: Jhn.6:17 20:1. Metaphorical, __(a) of secrecy (opposite to ἐν τ. φωτί): Mat.10:27, Luk.12:3; __(b) of spiritual darkness: Mat.4:16, Jhn.1:5 8:12 12:35, 40, 1Jn.1:5 Jn 2:8-9 Jn 2:11.† (AS)
The KJV translates G4653 in the following manner:
darkness (28x), dark (4x)
Full Thayer's lexicon entry
σκοτία — skotía
σκοτία, σκοτίας, ἡ (on its derivation cf. σκηνή), (Thomas Magister, ὁ σκότος καί τό σκότος. τό δέ σκοτία οὐκ ἐν χρησει namely, in Attic (cf. Moeris, under the word; Liddell and Scott, under the word σκότος, at the end)), darkness: properly, the darkness due to want of daylight, Joh 6:17; Joh 20:1; ἐν τῇ σκοτία (λαλεῖν τί), unseen, in secret (equivalent to ἐν κρύπτω, Joh 18:20), privily, in private, opposed to ἐν τῷ φωτί, Mat 10:27; Luk 12:3; metaphorically, used of ignorance of divine things, and its associated wickedness, and the resultant misery: Mat 4:16 L Tr WH; Joh 1:5; Joh 6:17; Joh 8:12; Joh 12:35; Joh 12:46; 1Jn 1:5; 1 John 2:8f, 11. (Ap. Rh. 4, 1698; Anth. 8, 187. 190; for חָשְׁכָה Mic 3:6; for אֹפֶל, Job 28:3.)
12 occurrences
Matthew (1), Luke (1), John (6), I John (4)