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Blackness Black

1: μέλας (Strong'S #3189 — Adjective — melas — mel'-as )

"black,"  Matthew 5:36;  Revelation 6:5,12 , is derived from a root mal---, meaning "to be dirty;" hence Latin, malus, "bad." See Ink.

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 Hebrews 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  Exodus 10:22;  Deuteronomy 4:11;  Zephaniah 1:15 .

3: ζόφος (Strong'S #2217 — Noun Masculine — zophos — dzof'-os )

akin to No. 1, especially "the gloom of the regions of the lost," is used four times;  2 Peter 2:4 , "darkness" (Rv);  2 Peter 2:17 , Rv, "blackness," for Av, "mist;"  Jude 1:6 , "darkness;"  Jude 1:13 , "blackness," suggesting a kind of emanation. See Darkness , Mist.