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Strong's #2822 - חשֶׁךְ
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2215) ksh (ההסהכ HhShK) AC: Darken CO: Dark AB: Darkness: [from: hs- a dark place]
V) ksh (ההסהכ HhShK) - Darken: KJV (19): (vf: Paal, Hiphil) darken, dark, blacker, darkness, dim, hide - Strongs: H2821 (חָשַׁךְ)
Nf1) eksh (ההסהכה HhShKH) - Dark: KJV (6): dark, darkness - Strongs: H2824 (חֶשְׁכָה), H2825 (חֲשֵׁיכָה)
am) kshm (מההסהכ MHhShK) - Dark place: KJV (7): darkness, dark - Strongs: H4285 (מַחְשָׁךְ)
cm) kfsh (ההסהוכ HhShWK) - Darkness: [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (2): mean - Strongs: H2816 (חֲשׁוֹךְ), H2823 (חָשֹׁךְ)
gm) ksfh (ההוסהכ HhWShK) - Darkness: KJV (80): darkness, dark, obscurity, night - Strongs: H2822 (חשֶׁךְ)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
חשֶׁךְ m.
(1) darkness, Genesis 1:2, seq.; Exodus 10:21, 22 Exodus 10:22, etc.; hence spoken of a dark place, as of Hades, Psalms 88:13 compare Job 10:21 of an underground prison, Isaiah 42:7, 47:5 49:9. אוֹצְרוֹת חשֶׁךְ treasures of darkness; i.e. hid in darkness, in underground cells, Isaiah 45:3.
(2) metaph.
(a) misery, adversity. Isaiah 9:1; Job 15:22, לֹא יַאֲמִין שׁוּב מִנִּי חשֶׁךְ “he does not hope to return out of darkness (or destruction);” 23 Job 15:23, 30 Job 15:30, 20:26 23:17 Micah 7:8; Amos 5:18, 20 Psalms 18:29. Also used of death, Ecclesiastes 11:8 compare אוֹר used of life, verse Ecclesiastes 11:7.
(b) ignorance, Job 37:19 (comp. 12:15, and there verse 24 Job 37:24).
(c) sadness, Ecclesiastes 5:16.-[“(d) wickedness, Proverbs 2:13 comp. τὸ σκότος, John 3:19 also Romans 13:12.”]
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