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Lexicon :: Strong's H2822 - ḥōšeḵ

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חֹשֶׁךְ
Transliteration
ḥōšeḵ
Pronunciation
kho-shek'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 769a

Strong’s Definitions

חֹשֶׁךְ chôshek, kho-shek'; from H2821; the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness:—dark(-ness), night, obscurity.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 80x

The KJV translates Strong's H2822 in the following manner: darkness (70x), dark (7x), obscurity (2x), night (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 80x
The KJV translates Strong's H2822 in the following manner: darkness (70x), dark (7x), obscurity (2x), night (1x).

  1. darkness, obscurity

    1. darkness

    2. secret place

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חֹשֶׁךְ chôshek, kho-shek'; from H2821; the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness:—dark(-ness), night, obscurity.
STRONGS H2822: Abbreviations
† ח֫שֶׁךְ noun masculineExodus 10:21 darkness, obscurity — absolute חשֶׁךְ Genesis 1:2 + 75 times (+ Ezekiel 8:12 strike out Co A B etc.); construct id. Exodus 10:22; suffix חָשְׁכִּי Psalm 18:29 [Psalm 18:28]＝2 Samuel 22:29; —
1. darkness (opposed to אוֺר) literal Genesis 1:2, 4 (P), Isaiah 45:7; Job 26:10; Ecclesiastes 2:13, compare in imprecation Job 3:4, 5 (וצלמות ח׳)＝לילה Genesis 1:5, 18 (P), compare Joshua 2:5 (JE), Isaiah 45:19; Job 17:12; Job 24:16; Job 38:19; Psalm 104:20; darkness in mines Job 28:3; of extraordinary darkness, in Egypt Exodus 10:21 (twice in verse) (E); אֲֿפֵלָה ח׳ Exodus 10:22 (E), Psalm 105:28, from pillar of cloud Exodus 14:20; at Mt. Sinai Deuteronomy 4:11; Deuteronomy 5:20; of clouds of theophany 2 Samuel 22:12＝Psalm 18:12; of darkness in death, or She'ô l, 1 Samuel 2:9; Job 10:21 (וצלמות אֶרֶץ ח׳), Job 17:13; Job 18:18; Psalm 88:13; Proverbs 20:20 (אִישׁוֺן ח׳＝extreme of darkness).
2.＝secret place(s) Isaiah 45:3; Job 12:22 (|| צלמות);＝hiding-place Job 34:22 (|| id.), compare Psalm 139:11; Psalm 139:12; — on Ezekiel 8:12, see above.
3. figurative,
a.＝distress Isaiah 5:30; Isaiah 9:1; Isaiah 29:18 (figurative of blindness), Isaiah 42:7; Isaiah 49:9; Isaiah 58:10; Isaiah 59:9; Isaiah 60:2; Lamentations 3:2; Micah 7:8; Psalm 18:29 [Psalm 18:28]＝2 Samuel 22:29; Job 15:22, 23, 30; Job 20:26; Job 22:11; Job 23:17; Job 29:3; Psalm 107:10; Psalm 107:14 (in both || צלמות), Psalm 112:4; Ecclesiastes 5:16; Ecclesiastes 11:8.
b.＝dread, terror, symbolic of judgment Amos 5:18, 20; Zephaniah 1:15; Nahum 1:8; Ezekiel 32:8; Joel 2:4; Joel 3:4.
c.＝mourning Isaiah 47:5.
d.＝perplexity Job 5:14; Job 12:25; Job 19:8; confusion Psalm 35:6.
e.＝ignorance Job 37:19; Ecclesiastes 2:14.
f.＝evil, sin Isaiah 5:20 (twice in verse); Proverbs 2:13.
g.＝obscurity Ecclesiastes 6:4 (twice in verse).

Biblical Aramaic

חשׁך (see Biblical Hebrew חשֶׁךְ darkness, √ חשׁך).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:2; 1:2; 1:4; 1:5; 1:18

Exodus

10:21; 10:21; 10:22; 10:22; 14:20

Deuteronomy

4:11; 5:20

Joshua

2:5

1 Samuel

2:9

2 Samuel

22:12; 22:29; 22:29

Job

3:4; 3:5; 5:14; 10:21; 12:22; 12:25; 15:22; 15:23; 15:30; 17:12; 17:13; 18:18; 19:8; 20:26; 22:11; 23:17; 24:16; 26:10; 28:3; 29:3; 34:22; 37:19; 38:19

Psalms

18:12; 18:28; 18:28; 35:6; 88:13; 104:20; 105:28; 107:10; 107:14; 112:4; 139:11; 139:12

Proverbs

2:13; 20:20

Ecclesiastes

2:13; 2:14; 5:16; 6:4; 11:8

Isaiah

5:20; 5:30; 9:1; 29:18; 42:7; 45:3; 45:7; 45:19; 47:5; 49:9; 58:10; 59:9; 60:2

Lamentations

3:2

Ezekiel

8:12; 8:12; 32:8

Joel

2:4; 3:4

Amos

5:18; 5:20

Micah

7:8

Nahum

1:8

Zephaniah

1:15

H2822

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Strong's Number H2822 matches the Hebrew חֹשֶׁךְ (ḥōšeḵ),
which occurs 80 times in 77 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 1:2–Ecc 2:13)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:2 - But the earth was unsightly and unfurnished, and darkness was over the deep, and the Spirit of God moved over the water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:4 - And God saw the light that it was good, and God divided between the light [fn]and the darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:5 - And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night, and there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:18 - and to regulate day and night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:21 - And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand to heaven, and let there be darkness over the land of Egypt—darkness that may be felt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:22 - And Moses stretched out his hand to heaven, and there was [fn]darkness very black, even a storm over all the land of Egypt three days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:20 - And it went between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel, and stood; and there was darkness and blackness; and the night passed, and they came not near to one another during the whole night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:11 - And ye drew nigh and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire up to heaven: there was darkness, blackness, and tempest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:23 - And it came to pass when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the fire, for the mountain burned with fire, that ye came to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:5 - but when the gate was shut in the [fn]evening, the men went out; I know not whither they are gone: follow after them, if ye [fn]may overtake them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:9 - granting his petition to him that prays; and he blesses the years of the righteous, for by strength cannot man prevail.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:12 - And he made darkness his hiding-place; his tabernacle round about him was the darkness of waters, he condensed it with the clouds of the air.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:29 - For thou, Lord, art my lamp, and the Lord shall shine forth to me in my darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:4 - Let that night be darkness, and let not the Lord regard it from above, neither let light come upon it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:5 - But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it; let blackness come upon it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:14 - In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:21 - before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:22 - Revealing deep things out of darkness: and he has brought into light the shadow of death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25 - Let them grope in darkness, and let there be no light, and let them wander as a drunken man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:22 - Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:23 - And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcase: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:30 - Neither shall he in any wise escape the darkness: let the wind blast his blossom, and let his flower fall off.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:12 - I have turned the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:13 - For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:18 - Let one drive him from light into darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:8 - I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: he has set darkness before my face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:26 - And let all darkness wait for him: a fire that burns not out shall consume him; and let a stranger plague his house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:11 - The light has proved darkness to thee, and water has covered thee on thy lying down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:17 - For I knew not that darkness would come upon me, and thick darkness has covered me before my face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:16 - In darkness he digs through houses: by day they conceal themselves securely: they know not the light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:10 - He has encompassed the face of the water by an appointed ordinance, until the end of light and darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:3 - He has set a bound to darkness, and he searches out every limit: a stone is darkness, and the shadow of death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:3 - As when his lamp shone over my head; when by his light I walked through darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:22 - Neither shall there be a place for the workers of iniquity to hide themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:19 - Wherefore teach me, what shall we say to him? and let us cease from saying much.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:19 - And in what kind of a land does the light dwell? and of what kind is the place of darkness?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:11 - (LXX 17:12) And he made darkness his secret place: round about him was his tabernacle, even dark water in the clouds of the air.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:28 - (LXX 17:29) For thou, O Lord, wilt light my lamp: my God, thou wilt lighten my darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:6 - (LXX 34:6) Let their way be dark and slippery, and an angel of the Lord persecuting them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:12 - (LXX 87:13) Shall thy wonders be known in darkness? and thy righteousness in a forgotten land?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:20 - (LXX 103:20) Thou didst make darkness, and it was night; in it all the wild beasts of the forest will be abroad:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:28 - (LXX 104:28) He sent forth darkness, and made it dark; yet they [fn]rebelled against his words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:10 - (LXX 106:10) even them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death, fettered in poverty and iron;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:14 - (LXX 106:14) And he brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds asunder.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:4 - (LXX 111:4) To the upright light has sprung up in darkness: he is pitiful, and merciful, and righteous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:11 - (LXX 138:11) When I said, Surely the darkness will cover me; even the night was light in my [fn]luxury.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:12 - (LXX 138:12) For darkness will not be darkness with thee; but night will be light as day: as its darkness, so shall its light be to thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:13 - Alas for those who forsake right paths, to walk in ways of darkness;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:20 - (LXX 20:9a) The lamp of him that reviles father or mother shall be put out, and his eyeballs shall see darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:13 - And I saw that wisdom excels folly, as much as light excels darkness.

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