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Strong’s H2821 · Hebrew

חָשַׁךְ

châshak · khaw-shak'

Origin a primitive root;

Meaning to be dark (as withholding light); transitively, to darken

In the King James Version be black, be (make) dark, darken, cause darkness, be dim, hide.

In 18 verses of the King James Version

  1. 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.
  2. 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:
  3. Job 18:6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
  4. Job 38:2Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
  5. Psalms 69:23Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
  6. Psalms 105:28He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
  7. Psalms 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.
  8. Ecclesiastes 12:2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
  9. 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,
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Lamentations 5:17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
  15. Ezekiel 30:18At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
  16. 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:
  17. 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:
  18. 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.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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