- Original: חשׁך
- Transliteration: Chashak
- Phonetic: khaw-shak'
- Definition:
1. to be or become dark, grow dim, be darkened, be black, be hidden
a. (Qal)
1. to be or grow dark
2. to have a dark colour
3. to grow dim
b. (Hiphil)
1. to make dark, cause to be dark
2. to hide, conceal
3. to obscure, confuse (fig.)
- Origin: a primitive root
- TWOT entry: 769
- Part(s) of speech: Verb
- Strong's: A primitive root; to be dark (as withholding light); transitively to darken: - be black be (make) dark darken cause darkness be dim hide.
Total KJV Occurrences: 17
• blacker, 1
Lamentations 4:8
• dark, 5
Job 3:9;
Job 18:6;
Psalm 105:28;
Amos 5:8;
Micah 3:6
• darken, 1
Amos 8:9
• darkened, 6
Exodus 10:15;
Psalm 69:23;
Ecclesiastes 12:2;
Ecclesiastes 12:3;
Isaiah 5:30;
Isaiah 13:10
• darkeneth, 1
Job 38:2
• darkness, 1
Jeremiah 13:16
• dim, 1
Lamentations 5:17
• hideth, 1
Psalm 139:12