Chashakh חָשַׁךְ
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| חָשַׁךְ | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | chashakh |
| Strong's number | H2821 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Gloss | to darken |
| Occurrences | 17 in 17 verses |
| Most frequent in | Job (3) |
Chashakh (Hebrew חָשַׁךְ, Strong's H2821) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to darken”. It occurs 17 times in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
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.)
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | darkened (7), dark (5), darkeneth (1), hideth (1), darkness (1), blacker (1), dim (1), darken (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | was black (1), grow dark (1), grows dark (1), who obscures (1), be darkened (1), it became dark (1), dark (1), is darkened (1), see dimly (1), will be obscured (1), will be darkened (1), he brings darkness (1), and 5 other renderings |
Verses
Every verse with Chashakh, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Exodus
- 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.They covered the face of all the land until it was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left behind. Nothing green was left on any tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.
Job
- 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:May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.
- Job 18:6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
- Job 38:2Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
Psalms
- Psalm 69:23Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.
- Psalm 105:28He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.He sent darkness, and it became dark— yet they defied His words.
- Psalm 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.even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
Ecclesiastes
- Ecclesiastes 12:2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and 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,on the day the keepers of the house tremble and the strong men stoop, when those grinding cease because they are few and those watching through windows see dimly,
Isaiah
- 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.In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.
- Isaiah 13:10For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.
Jeremiah
- Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
Lamentations
- Lamentations 4:8Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.
- Lamentations 5:17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
Amos
- Amos 5:8Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name:He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth— the LORD is His name—
- Amos 8:9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
Micah
- Micah 3:6Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).