Topic
Obscurity
3 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Esther 11:8ISBE
And lo a day of darkness and obscurity, tribulation and anguish, affliction and great uproar, upon earth.
- Proverbs 20:20ISBE
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
- Isaiah 29:18ISBE
¶ And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 5 references
ob-sku'-ri-ti: In modern English generally denotes a state of very faint but still perceptible illumination, and only when preceded by some such adjective as "total" does it imply the absence of all light. In Biblical English, however, only the latter meaning is found. So in Isa 29:18 ('ophel, "darkness"); 58:10; 59:9 (choshekh, "darkness"); Additions to Esther 11:8 (gnophos, "darkness"). Compare Pr 20:20, the King James Version "in obscure darkness," the English Revised Version "in the blackest darkness," the American Standard Revised Version "in blackness of darkness."
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.