Dictionaries :: Black, Blackness

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Black, Blackness:

"black," Mat 5:36; Rev 6:5, 12, is derived from a root mal--, meaning "to be dirty;" hence Latin, malus, "bad."
See INK.

Black, Blackness:

Hbr 12:18, "blackness, gloom," seems to have been associated with the idea of a tempest. It is related to skotos, "darkness," in that passage, and in the Sept. of Exd 10:22; Deu 4:11; Zep 1:15.

Black, Blackness:

akin to No. 1, especially "the gloom of the regions of the lost," is used four times; 2Pe 2:4, "darkness" (RV); 2Pe 2:17, RV, "blackness," for AV, "mist;" Jud 1:6, "darkness;" Jud 1:13, "blackness," suggesting a kind of emanation.
See DARKNESS, MIST.