Darkness
D'ARKNESS, noun
And darkness was on the face of the deep. [[Genesis 1#2|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|John 3:19]].
4. A private place; secrecy; privacy.
What I tell in darkness that speak ye in light.
[[Matthew 10#27|Matthew 10:27]].
5. Infernal gloom; hell; as utter darkness [[Matthew 22#13|Matthew 22:13]].
6. Great trouble and distress; calamities; perplexities.
A day of clouds and thick darkness [[Joel 2#2|Joel 2:2]].
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness
[[Colossians 1#13|Colossians 1:13]].
8. Opakeness.