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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! be it darkness;{HR}Let not God from above ask after it;{HR}And let not light shine upon it;
 5Let darkness and death-shade reclaim it;{HR}Let clouds tabernacle on it;{HR}Let darkenings of the day affright it.
 6That night! thick darkness seize on it;{HR}Let it not be joined to the days of the year;{HR}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 return not,{HR}To a land of darkness and death-shade,
 22A land of gloom, like pitch-darkness itself,{HR}Death-shade, without order,{HR}And the shining like pitch-darkness itself. (Job 10:21‑22)
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Isa. 13:10• 10For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun is darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine. (Isa. 13:10)
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Ezek. 34:12• 12As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where 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 an utter 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 his feet and hands, and take 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 sea-waves foaming out their own shames; wandering stars for whom hath been reserved the gloom of darkness forever. (Jude 13)
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Rev. 16:10• 10And the fifth poured out his bowl upon the throne of the beast; and his kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues for the pain, (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?

W. Kelly Translation

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