γνόφος

English (LSJ)

later form for δνόφος,

   A darkness, Chron.Lind. D.28, Ep.Hebr.12.18, D.Chr. 34.37(pl.), Luc.Peregr.43: pl., storm-clouds, Arist.Mu.391b12.

French (Bailly abrégé)

v. δνόφος.

English (Strong)

akin to νέφος; gloom (as of a storm): blackness.

English (Thayer)

γνόφου, ὁ (for the earlier (and poetic) δνόφος, akin to νέφος (so Alexander Buttmann (1873) Lexil. 2:266; but see Curtius, pp. 704f, 706, cf. 535; Vanicek, p. 1070)), darkness, gloom: Aristotle, de mund. c. 2at the end, p. 392b, 12; Lucian, de mort. Peregr. 43; Dio Chrysostom; the Sept. also for עָנָן a cloud, עֲרָפֶל 'thick cloud,' Trench, § c.).)