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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 22:12Psalm 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,
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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Page 2 / 2 (Ecc 2:14–Zep 1:15)

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:14 - The wise man’s eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness H2822. And yet I know that the fate of one becomes the fate of all of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:17 - Also, all his days he eats in darkness H2822 with much vexation, and his sickness and anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:4 - for that one comes in vanity and goes into darkness H2822; and that one’s name is covered in darkness H2822.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:8 - Indeed, if a man should live many years, let him be glad in them all, and let him remember the days of darkness H2822, for they will be many. Everything that is to come will be vanity.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:20 -

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,

Who [fn]substitute darkness H2822 for light and light for darkness H2822,

Who [fn]substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:30 -

And it will growl over it in that day like the roaring of the sea.

If one looks to the land, behold, there is darkness H2822 and distress;

Even the light is darkened by its clouds.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:2 -

[fn]The people who walk in darkness H2822

Will see a great light;

Those who live in the land of the shadow of death,

The light will shine on them.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:18 -

On that day the deaf will hear words of a book,

And out of [fn]darkness H2822 and thick darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:7 -

To open blind eyes,

To bring out prisoners from the dungeon

And those who inhabit darkness H2822 from the prison.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:3 -

“I will give you the [fn]treasures of darkness H2822

And hidden wealth of secret places,

So that you may know that it is I,

Yahweh, the God of Israel, who calls you by your name.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:7 -

The One forming light and creating darkness H2822,

Producing peace and creating calamity;

I am Yahweh who does all these.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:19 -

“I have not spoken in secret,

In [fn]some dark H2822 land;

I did not say to the seed of Jacob,

‘Seek Me in [fn]a formless place’;

I, Yahweh, speak righteousness,

Declaring things that are upright.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:5 -

“Sit silently, and go into darkness H2822,

O daughter of the Chaldeans,

For you will no longer be called

The queen of kingdoms.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:9 -

Saying to those who are bound, ‘Go forth,’

To those who are in darkness H2822, ‘[fn]Show yourselves.’

Along the roads they will [fn]feed,

And their pasture will be on all bare heights.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:10 -

And if you [fn]offer your soul to the hungry

And satisfy the soul of the afflicted,

Then your light will rise in darkness H2822

And your thick darkness will become like midday.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:9 -

Therefore justice is far from us,

And righteousness does not overtake us;

We hope for light, but behold, darkness H2822,

For brightness, but we walk in thick darkness.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:2 -

“For behold, darkness H2822 will cover the earth

And dense gloom the peoples;

But Yahweh will rise upon you,

And His glory will appear upon you.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:2 -

He has driven me and made me walk

In darkness H2822 and not in light.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:12 - Then He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark H2822, each man in the room of his carved images? For they say, ‘Yahweh does not see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:8 -

“All the shining lights in the heavens

I will darken over you

And will give darkness H2822 on your land,”

Declares Lord Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:2 -

A day of darkness H2822 and thick darkness,

A day of clouds and dense gloom.

As the dawn is spread over the mountains,

So there is a numerous and mighty people;

There has never been anything like it,

Nor will there be again after it

For the years from generation to generation.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:31 -

“The sun will be turned into darkness H2822

And the moon into blood

Before the great and awesome day of Yahweh comes.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:18 -

Woe, you who are longing for the day of Yahweh,

For what purpose will the day of Yahweh be to you?

It will be darkness H2822 and not light;

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:20 -

Will not the day of Yahweh be darkness H2822 instead of light,

Even thick darkness with no brightness in it?

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:8 -

Do not be glad over me, O my enemy.

Though I fall I will rise;

Though I inhabit the darkness H2822, Yahweh is a light for me.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:8 -

Kaph

But with an overflowing flood

He will make a complete destruction of [fn]its place

And will pursue His enemies into darkness H2822.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:15 -

A day of fury is that day,

A day of trouble and distress,

A day of destruction and desolation,

A day of darkness H2822 and thick darkness,

A day of clouds and dense gloom,


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