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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Dark

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Dark

D'ARK, adjective

1. Destitute of light; obscure. A dark atmosphere is one which prevents vision.

2. Wholly or partially black; having the quality opposite to white; as a dark color or substance.

3. Gloomy; disheartening; having unfavorable prospects; as a dark time in political affairs.

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of

heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark

hour of adversity. Irving.

4. Obscure; not easily understood or explained; as a dark passage in an author; a dark saying.

5. Mysterious; as, the ways of Providence are often dark to human reason.

6. Not enlightened with knowledge; destitute of learning and science; rude; ignorant; as a dark age.

7. Not vivid; partially black. Leviticus 13:6

8. Blind.

9. Gloomy; not cheerful; as a dark temper.

10. Obscure; concealed; secret; not understood; as a dark design.

11. Unclean; foul.

12. Opake. But dark and opake are not synonymous. Chalk is opake, but not dark

13. Keeping designs concealed.

The dark unrelenting Tiberius. Gibbon.

D'ARK, noun

1. Darkness; obscurity; the absence of light. We say we can hear in the dark

Shall the wonders be known in the dark? Ps.

1xxxviii.

2. Obscurity; secrecy; a state unknown; as, things done in the dark

3. Obscurity; a state of ignorance; as, we are all in the dark

D'ARK, verb transitive

1. To make dark; to deprive of light; as, close the shutters and darken the room.

2. To obscure; to cloud.

His confidence seldom darkened his foresight.

Bacon.

3. To make black.

The locusts darkened the land. Exodus 10:1.

4. To make dim; to deprive of vision.

Let their eyes be darkened. Romans 11:10.

5. To render gloomy; as, all joy is darkened. Isaiah 24:1.

6. To deprive of intellectual vision; to render ignorant or stupid.

Their foolish heart was darkened. Romans 1:21.

Having the understanding darkened. Ephesians 4:1.

7. To obscure; to perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words

without knowledge? Job 38:1.

8. To render less white or clear; to tan; as, a burning sun darkens the complexion.

9. To sully; to make foul.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Darken

D'ARKEN, verb intransitive To grow dark or darker; also, to grow less white or clear.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Darkened

D'ARKENED, participle passive Deprived of light; obscured; rendered dim; made black; made ignorant.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Darkening

D'ARKENING, participle present tense Depriving of light; obscuring; making black or less white or clear; clouding.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Dark-house

D'ARK-HOUSE, noun An old word for a madhouse.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Darkish

D'ARKISH, adjective Dusky; somewhat dark.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Darkling

D'ARKLING, adjective Being in the dark, or without light; a poetical word.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Darkly

D'ARKLY, adverb Obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly; with imperfect light, clearness or knowledge.

They learn only what tradition has darkly conveyed

to them. Anon.


Easton's Bible Dictionary
Darkness

The plague (the ninth) of darkness in Egypt (Exodus 10:21) is described as darkness "which may be felt." It covered "all the land of Egypt," so that "they saw not one another." It did not extend to the land of Goshen (ver. 23).

When Jesus hung upon the cross (Matthew 27:45; Luke 23:44), from the "sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour."

On Mount Sinai, Moses (Exodus 20:21) "drew near unto the thick darkness where God was." This was the "thick cloud upon the mount" in which Jehovah was when he spake unto Moses there. The Lord dwelt in the cloud upon the mercy-seat (1 Kings 8:12), the cloud of glory. When the psalmist (Psalms 97:2) describes the inscrutable nature of God's workings among the sons of men, he says, "Clouds and darkness are round about him." God dwells in thick darkness.

Darkness (Isaiah 13:9, 10; Matthew 24:29) also is a symbol of the judgments that attend on the coming of the Lord. It is a symbol of misery and adversity (Job 18:6; Psalms 107:10; Isaiah 8:22; Ezekiel 30:18). The "day of darkness" in Joel 2:2, caused by clouds of locusts, is a symbol of the obscurity which overhangs all divine proceedings. "Works of darkness" are impure actions (Ephesians 5:11). "Outer darkness" refers to the darkness of the streets in the East, which are never lighted up by any public or private lamps after nightfall, in contrast with the blaze of cheerful light in the house. It is also a symbol of ignorance (Isaiah 9:2; 60:2; Matthew 6:23) and of death (Job 10:21; 17:13).


Naves Topical Index
Darkness

Smith's Bible Dictionary
Darkness

is spoken of as encompassing the actual presence of God, as that out of which he speaks,

the envelope, as it were, of divine glory. (Exodus 20:21; 1 Kings 8:12) The plague of darkness in Egypt was miraculous. The darkness "over all the land," (Matthew 27:45) attending the crucifixion has been attributed to an eclipse, but was undoubtedly miraculous, as no eclipse of the sun could have taken place at that time, the moon being at the full at the time of the passover. Darkness is also, as in the expression "land of darkness," used for the state of the dead, (Job 10:21,22) and frequently, figuratively, for ignorance and unbelief, as the privation of spiritual light. (John 1:5; 3:19)


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Darkness

D'ARKNESS, noun

1. Absence of light.

And darkness was on the face of the deep. Genesis 1:2.

2. Obscurity; want of clearness or perspicuity; that quality or state which renders any thing difficult to be understood; as the darkness of counsels.

3. A state of being intellectually clouded; ignorance.

Men loved darkness rather than light. John 3:19.

4. A private place; secrecy; privacy.

What I tell in darkness that speak ye in light.

Matthew 10:27.

5. Infernal gloom; hell; as utter darkness Matthew 22:13.

6. Great trouble and distress; calamities; perplexities.

A day of clouds and thick darkness Joel 2:2. Is.

viii.

7. Empire of Satan.

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness

Colossians 1:13.

8. Opakeness.

Land of darkness the grave. Job 10:21.


Hitchcock's Names Dictionary
Darkon

of generation; of possession


Naves Topical Index
Darkon

A servant of Solomon.
Ezra 2:56; Nehemiah 7:58


Smith's Bible Dictionary
Darkon

(scatterer). Children of Darkon were among the "servants of Solomon" who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:56; Nehemiah 7:58) (B.C. before 536).


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Darksome

D'ARKSOME, adjective Dark; gloomy; obscure; as a darksome house; a darksome cloud.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Dark-working

D'ARK-WORKING, adjective Working in darkness or in secrecy.


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