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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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:2 - Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:4 - God saw that the light was good, so God separated the light from the darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:5 - God called the light "day" and the darkness "night." There was evening, and there was morning, marking the first day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:18 - to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:21 - The LORD said to Moses, "Extend your hand toward heaven so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness so thick it can be felt."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:22 - So Moses extended his hand toward heaven, and there was absolute darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:20 - It came between the Egyptian camp and the Israelite camp; it was a dark cloud and it lit up the night so that one camp did not come near the other the whole night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:11 - You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it and yet dark with a thick cloud.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:23 - Then, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness while the mountain was ablaze, all your tribal leaders and elders approached me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:5 - When it was time to shut the city gate for the night, the men left. I don't know where they were heading. Chase after them quickly, for you have time to catch them!"

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:9 - He watches over his holy ones, but the wicked are made speechless in the darkness, for it is not by one's own strength that one prevails.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:12 - He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:29 - Indeed, you are my lamp, LORD. The LORD illumines the darkness around me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:4 - That day - let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:5 - Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:14 - They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:21 - before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:22 - He reveals the deep things of darkness, and brings deep shadows into the light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25 - They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:22 - He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:23 - he wanders about - food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:30 - He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God's mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:12 - These men change night into day; they say, 'The light is near in the face of darkness.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:13 - If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:18 - He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:8 - He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:26 - Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:11 - why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:17 - Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:16 - In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:10 - He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 28:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:3 - Man puts an end to the darkness; he searches the farthest recesses for the ore in the deepest darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:3 - when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:22 - There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:19 - Tell us what we should say to him. We cannot prepare a case because of the darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:19 - "In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:11 - He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:28 - Indeed, you are my lamp, LORD. My God illuminates the darkness around me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:6 - May their path be dark and slippery, as the LORD's angel chases them!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:12 - Are your amazing deeds experienced in the dark region, or your deliverance in the land of oblivion?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:20 - You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:28 - He made it dark; they did not disobey his orders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:10 - They sat in utter darkness, bound in painful iron chains,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:14 - He brought them out of the utter darkness, and tore off their shackles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 112:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:4 - In the darkness a light shines for the godly, for each one who is merciful, compassionate, and just.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:11 - If I were to say, "Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,"

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 139:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:12 - even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:13 - who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:20 - The one who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the blackest darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:13 - I realized that wisdom is preferable to folly, just as light is preferable to darkness:

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