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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).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2822 matches the Hebrew חֹשֶׁךְ (ḥōšeḵ),
which occurs 23 times in 23 verses in 'Job' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:4

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If only that day had turned to darkness!

May God above not care about it,

or light shine on it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:5

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May darkness and gloom reclaim it,

and a cloud settle over it.

May what darkens the day terrify it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:14

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They encounter darkness by day,

and they grope at noon

as if it were night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:21

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“before I go to a land of darkness and gloom,

never to return.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:22

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He reveals mysteries from the darkness

and brings the deepest darkness into the light.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:25

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They grope around in darkness without light;

he makes them stagger like a drunkard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:22

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He doesn’t believe he will return from darkness;

he is destined for the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:23

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He wanders about for food, asking, “Where is it? ”

He knows the day of darkness is at hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:30

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He will not escape from the darkness;

flames will wither his shoots,

and by the breath of God’s mouth, he will depart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 17:12

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They turned night into day

and made light seem near in the face of darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 17:13

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If I await Sheol as my home,

spread out my bed in darkness,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:18

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He is driven from light to darkness

and chased from the inhabited world.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:8

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He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass through;

he has veiled my paths with darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:26

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Total darkness is reserved for his treasures.

A fire unfanned by human hands will consume him;

it will feed on what is left in his tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 22:11

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or darkness, so you cannot see,

and a flood of water covers you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 23:17

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Yet I am not destroyed[fn] by the darkness,

by the thick darkness that covers my face.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:16

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In the dark they break[fn] into houses;

by day they lock themselves in,[fn]

never experiencing the light.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 26:10

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He laid out the horizon on the surface of the waters

at the boundary between light and darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 28:3

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A miner puts an end to the darkness;

he probes[fn] the deepest recesses

for ore in the gloomy darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 29:3

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when his lamp shone above my head,

and I walked through darkness by his light!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 34:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:22 -

There is no darkness, no deep darkness,

where evildoers can hide.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 37:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:19 -

Teach us what we should say to him;

we cannot prepare our case because of our darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:19

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Where is the road to the home of light?

Do you know where darkness lives,

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