Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H2821
חָשַׁךְ
cha.shakh · “to darken”
Used 18 times across 10 books
Definition
1) to be or become dark, grow dim, be darkened, be black, be hidden
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be or grow dark
1a2) to have a dark colour
1a3) to grow dim
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to make dark, cause to be dark
1b2) to hide, conceal
1b3) to obscure, confuse (fig.)
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be or grow dark
1a2) to have a dark colour
1a3) to grow dim
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to make dark, cause to be dark
1b2) to hide, conceal
1b3) to obscure, confuse (fig.)
Where it appears
Exodus1
Job3
Psalms3
Ecclesiastes2
Isaiah2
Jeremiah1
Lamentations2
Ezekiel1
Amos2
Micah1
In the text
Exodus 10:15For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.Job 3:9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:Job 18:6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.Job 38:2Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?Psalms 69:24Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.Psalms 105:28He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.Psalms 139:12Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.Ecclesiastes 12:2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:Ecclesiastes 12:3In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,Isaiah 5:30And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
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