STRONGS G850:
αὐχμηρός,
-ά,
-όν, (
αὐχμέω to be squalid),
squalid, dirty (Xenophon, Plato, and following), and since dirty things are destitute of brightness,
dark:
2 Peter 1:19, Aristotle, de color. 3
τὸ λαμπρὸν ἢ στίλβον...
ἢ τοὐναντίον ἀυχμηρὸν καὶ ἀλαμπές. (Hesychius, Suidas, Pollux.)
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