Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H4285
מַחְשָׁךְ
mach.shakh · “darkness”
Used 7 times across 3 books
Definition
1) darkness, dark place, secrecy
1a) hiding-place
1b) dark region
1c) grave
Aramaic equivalent: cha.shokh (חֲשׁוֹךְ "darkness" H2816)
1a) hiding-place
1b) dark region
1c) grave
Aramaic equivalent: cha.shokh (חֲשׁוֹךְ "darkness" H2816)
Where it appears
Psalms4
Isaiah2
Lamentations1
In the text
Psalms 74:20Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.Psalms 88:7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.Psalms 88:19Psalms 143:3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.Isaiah 29:15Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?Isaiah 42:16And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.Lamentations 3:6He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
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