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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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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)

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:14

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 one fate befalls them both.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:17 - Throughout his life he also eats in darkness H2822 with great vexation, sickness and anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:4 - for it comes in futility and goes into obscurity; H2822 and its name is covered in obscurity. H2822

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:8 - Indeed, if a man should live many years, let him rejoice in them all, and let him remember the days of darkness, H2822 for they will be many. Everything that is to come will be futility.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:20

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!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:30

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:2 - [fn]The people who walk in darkness H2822
Will see a great light;
Those who live in a dark land,
The light will shine on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:18 - On that day the deaf will hear words of a book,
And out of their gloom and darkness H2822 the eyes of the blind will see.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:7 - To open blind eyes,
To bring out prisoners from the dungeon
And those who dwell in darkness H2822 from the prison.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:3

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:7 - The One forming light and creating darkness, H2822
Causing [fn]well-being and creating calamity;
I am the LORD who does all these.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:19 - “I have not spoken in secret,
In [fn]some dark H2822 land;
I did not say to the [fn]offspring of Jacob,
‘Seek Me in [fn]a waste place’;
I, the LORD, speak righteousness,
Declaring things that are upright.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:5

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:9 - Saying to those who are bound, ‘Go forth,’
To those who are in darkness, H2822 ‘Show yourselves.’
Along the roads they will feed,
And their pasture will be on all bare heights.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 58:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:10 - And if you [fn]give yourself to the hungry
And satisfy the [fn]desire of the afflicted,
Then your light will rise in darkness H2822
And your gloom will become like midday.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:9

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 gloom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 60:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:2 - “For behold, darkness H2822 will cover the earth
And deep darkness the peoples;
But the LORD will rise upon you
And His glory will appear upon you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:2 - He has driven me and made me walk
In darkness H2822 and not in light.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:12

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 committing in the dark, H2822 each man in the room of his carved images? For they say, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:8 - “All the shining lights in the heavens
I will darken over you
And will set darkness H2822 on your land,”
Declares the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:2 - A day of darkness H2822 and gloom,
A day of clouds and thick darkness.
As the dawn is spread over the mountains,
So there is a great and mighty people;
There has never been anything like it,
Nor will there be again after it
To the years of many generations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:31

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 the LORD comes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:18 - Alas, you who are longing for the day of the LORD,
For what purpose will the day of the LORD be to you?
It will be darkness H2822 and not light;

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:20 - Will not the day of the LORD be darkness H2822 instead of light,
Even gloom with no brightness in it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:8 - Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy.
Though I fall I will rise;
Though I dwell in darkness, H2822 the LORD is a light for me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:8 - But with an overflowing flood
He will make a complete end of [fn]its site,
And will pursue His enemies into darkness. H2822

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:15 - A day of wrath is that day,
A day of trouble and distress,
A day of destruction and desolation,
A day of darkness H2822 and gloom,
A day of clouds and thick darkness,

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