Machshakh מַחְשָׁךְ

Machshakh (Hebrew מַחְשָׁךְ, Strong's H4285) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “darkness”. It occurs 7 times in 7 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Machshakh, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Psalms

• Psalm 74:20
  Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
• Psalm 88:6
  Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
• Psalm 88:18
  Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.
• Psalm 143:3
  For 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.For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 29:15
  Woe 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?Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”
• Isaiah 42:16
  And 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.I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

Lamentations

• Lamentations 3:6
  He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.

Notes

1. 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.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).