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