Black, Blackness <1,,3189, melas>
"black," Mat 5:36, Rev 6:5, Rev 6:12, is derived from a root mal--, meaning "to be dirty;" hence Latin, malus, "bad." See INK.
<2,Noun,1105, gnophos>
Heb 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 Exo 10:22, Deu 4:11, Zep 1:15.
<3,Noun,2217, zophos>
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.
