(blackness). Absence of light (Gen. 1:2); 9th plague (Ex. 10:20-23); State of misery (Job 18:6); God’s dwelling (Ex. 20:21; 1 Kings 8:12); typical of national convulsion (Acts 2:19-20); state of the fallen (Matt. 8:12); ignorance (John 1:5); sympathetic (Luke 23:44).