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

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

A state of being intellectually clouded; ignorance. Men loved darkness’ rather than light. John 3:19.

A private place; secrecy; privacy. What I tell in darkness, that speak ye in light. atthew 10:27.

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

Great trouble and distress; calamities; perplexities. A day of clouds and thick darkness. Joel 2:2; Isaiah 8:22.

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

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