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Amos 5

Amos 5:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Shall not the day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
be darkness
choshek (Hebrew #2822)
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
KJV usage: dark(-ness), night, obscurity.
Pronounce: kho-shek'
Origin: from 2821
, and not light
'owr (Hebrew #216)
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
KJV usage: bright, clear, + day, light (-ning), morning, sun.
Pronounce: ore
Origin: from 215
? even very dark
'aphel (Hebrew #651)
dusky
KJV usage: very dark.
Pronounce: aw-fale'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to set as the sun
, and no brightness
nogahh (Hebrew #5051)
brilliancy (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: bright(-ness), light, (clear) shining.
Pronounce: no'-gah
Origin: from 5050
in it?

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Cross References

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Job 3:4‑6• 4That day--let it be darkness, let not +God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it:
 5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.
 6That night--let gloom seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months. (Job 3:4‑6)
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Job 10:21‑22• 21Before I go, and never to return,--to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
 22A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness. (Job 10:21‑22)
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Isa. 13:10• 10For the stars of the heavens and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. (Isa. 13:10)
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Ezek. 34:12• 12As a shepherd tendeth his flock in the day that he is among his scattered sheep, so will I tend my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places whither they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. (Ezek. 34:12)
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Nah. 1:8• 8But with an overrunning flood he will make a full end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies. (Nah. 1:8)
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Matt. 22:13• 13Then said the king to the servants, Bind him feet and hands, and take him away, and cast him out into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. (Matt. 22:13)
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Jude 13• 13raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames; wandering stars, to whom has been reserved the gloom of darkness for eternity. (Jude 13)
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Rev. 16:10• 10And the fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast; and its kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues with distress, (Rev. 16:10)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?