Shachor שָׁחֹר

Shachor (Hebrew שָׁחֹר, Strong's H7838) is a Hebrew adjective meaning “black”. It occurs 6 times in 6 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 Shachor, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Leviticus

• Leviticus 13:31
  And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and that there is no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scall seven days:But if the priest examines the scaly infection and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days.
• Leviticus 13:37
  But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.If, however, in his sight the scaly outbreak is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, then it has healed. He is clean, and the priest is to pronounce him clean.

Song of Solomon

• Song of Solomon 1:5
  I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.I am dark, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.
• Song of Solomon 5:11
  His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.

Zechariah

• Zechariah 6:2
  In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses,
• Zechariah 6:6
  The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.The one with the black horses is going toward the land of the north, the one with the white horses toward the west, and the one with the dappled horses toward the south.”

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).