Zophos means “blackness” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2217 — zerubbabel in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2217 ζόφος (zophos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. zophos (dzof'-os) n. 1. gloom (as shrouding like a cloud) 2. clouding gloom It has 4 linked Bible usages across 2 books. Visible English usage signals include darkness, clouds, and blackness. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament.
zophos (dzof'-os) n. 1. gloom (as shrouding like a cloud) 2. clouding gloom [akin to the base of G3509] KJV: blackness, darkness, mist Compare: G1105 See also: G3509
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2217. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
darkness
Usage: 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 English word each shown verse actually uses to render zophos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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4 indexed usages in New Testament.
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
First 4 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2217.
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2217, grouped by book.
Zophos (Strong's G2217) is a Greek word most simply glossed "blackness". zophos (dzof'-os) n. 1. gloom (as shrouding like a cloud) 2. clouding gloom
This page currently indexes 4 linked usages for Strong's G2217 across 2 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2217 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as darkness, clouds, and blackness. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.