Strong's Lexicon: H2821 חָשַׁך

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Strong's Number:	H2821
Word:	חָשַׁך
Part of Speech:	verb
Etymology:	a primitive root
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	18
Transliteration:	chashak
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	khaw-shak'
Meaning:	1. to be dark (as withholding light) 2. transitively, to darken
KJV Renderings:	be black, be (make) dark, darken, cause darkness, be dim, hide.

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חָשַׁךְ verb be, grow dark (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic חֲשַׁךְ, [untranscribed source text 2028]; Arabic [untranscribed source text 2029] bear rancour, see Lag^{BN 30}) —

Qal Perfect ׳ ח Isa 5:30 + 4 t.; וְחָֽשְׁכָה consecutive Mic 3:6 (but see below); חָֽשְׁכוּ Lam 5:17 וְחָֽשְׁכוּ consecutive Eccl 12:3 Imperfect 3 feminine singular תֶּחְשַׁךְ Eccl 12:2 וַתֶּחְשַׁךְ Exod 10:15 3 masculine plural יֶחְשְׁכוּ Job 3:9 3 feminine plural תֶּחְשַׁכְנָה Ps 69:24 —

1. be, grow dark, אוֺר Isa 5:30, compare (figurative) Job 18:6 הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ Isa 13:10 (figurative); היום Ezek 30:18 (where read חשׁך, for ᵑ0 Baer חשׂך); Job 3:9 (subject כוכבים), compare Eccl 12:2 (subject השׁמשׁ, האור , הירח, הכוכבים); impersonal Mic 3:6 (si vera 1.; but read probably וַחֲשֵׁכָה, corresponding with לַיְלָה preceding).

2. have a dark colour: מִשְּׁחוֺר ׳ ח תָּֽאֳרָם Lam 4:8 darker than blackness is their visage; of the earth הָאֶרֶץ Exod 10:15.

3. grow dim Lam 5:17 (subject עינינו), compare Ps 69:24 (figurative), Eccl 12:3 subject הָראֹוֺת i.e. the eyes.

Hiph`il Perfect הֶחְשִׁיךְ Amos 5:8, וְהַחֲשַׁכְתִּ֫י Amos 8:9 Imperfect יַחֲשִׁיךְ Ps 139:12 יַחְשִׁךְ Jer 13:16 וַיַּחְשִׁךְ Ps 105:28 Participle מַחְשִׁיךְ Job 38:2 —

1. make dark, ׳ יום לילה הח Amos 5:8 absolute cause darkness Jer 13:16; Ps 105:28, compare Amos 8:9 (לארץ).

2. = hide, conceal, followed by מִמֶּךָּ Ps 139:12 .

3. figurative obscure, confuse Job 38:2 (object עֵצָה).

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

חשך (g’hah-shach’)

Job 18:6

KJV: The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.candle: or, lamp

EHCC: The light shall be dark

Ecclesiastes 12:3

KJV: In 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,the grinders…: or, the grinders fail, because they grind little

EHCC: and those that look out of the windows be

Isaiah 5:30

KJV: And 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.sorrow: or, distressand the light…: or, when it is light, it shall be dark in the destructions thereof

EHCC: the light is darkened in the heavens

Micah 8:6

EHCC: and it shall be dark unto you, ] 506 6

Exodus 10:15

KJV: For 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.

EHCC: so that the land sas darkened;

Job 3:9

KJV: Let 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:the dawning…: Heb. the eyelids of the morning

EHCC: ae stars of the twilight thereof b

Psalms 69:23

KJV: Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.

EHCC: (24). Let their eyes be darkened,

Ecclesiastes 12:2

KJV: While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

EHCC: the stars, be not darkened,

Amos 5:8

KJV: Seek 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:

EHCC: maketh the day dark

Psalms 105:28

KJV: He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

EHCC: sent darkness, and made it dark;

Jeremiah 13:16

KJV: Give 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.

EHCC: before he cause darkness, and before your

Job 88:2

EHCC: Who (is) this that darkeneth counsel

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