1. Absence of light.

And darkness was on the face of the deep. Genesis 1:2.

2. Obscurity; want of clearness or perspicuity; that quality or state which renders any thing difficult to be understood; as the darkness of counsels.

3. A state of being intellectually clouded; ignorance.

Men loved darkness rather than light. John 3:19.

4. A private place; secrecy; privacy.

What I tell in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matthew 10:27.

5. Infernal gloom; hell; as utter darkness. Matthew 22:13.

6. Great trouble and distress; calamities; perplexities.

A day of clouds and thick darkness. Joel 2:2; Isaiah 8:22.

7. Empire of Satan.

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness. Colossians 1:13.

8. Opakeness.

Land of darkness, the grave. Job 10:21, 22.