Quick Definition
darkness
Strong's Definition
obscuration (as if from shrinkage of light, i.e. an eclipse (only in plural)
Derivation: redupl. from H3648 (כָּמַר);
KJV Usage: blackness.
TWOT Reference: 994a
Outline of Biblical Usage
1) blackness, gloominess, darkness
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
כִּמְרִיר (kim.rir) — darkness. blackness, gloominess, darkness
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m
Dark
darkness = process by which the daylight makes place for darkness; ≈ associated with distress and suffering
adj · מרר
Intense
bitter, deadly literally: bitter; hence: = state in which an event is of a very serious nature, and potentially fatal
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[כִּמְרִיר] n.m. darkness, gloominess (?), Jb 3:5 ref
