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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 - Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:5 - 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 - to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:21 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness spreads over Egypt—darkness that can be felt.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:22 - So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:20 - coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel. Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness to the one side and light to the other side; so neither went near the other all night long.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:11 - You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain while it blazed with fire to the very heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:23 - When you heard the voice out of the darkness, while the mountain was ablaze with fire, all the leaders of your tribes and your elders came to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:5 - At dusk, when it was time to close the city gate, they left. I don’t know which way they went. Go after them quickly. You may catch up with them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:9 - He will guard the feet of his faithful servants, but the wicked will be silenced in the place of darkness. “It is not by strength that one prevails;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:12 - He made darkness his canopy around him— the dark[fn] rain clouds of the sky.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:29 - You, LORD, are my lamp; the LORD turns my darkness into light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:4 - That day—may it turn to darkness; may God above not care about it; may no light shine on it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:5 - May gloom and utter darkness claim it once more; may a cloud settle over it; may blackness overwhelm it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:14 - Darkness comes upon them in the daytime; at noon they grope as in the night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:21 - before I go to the place of no return, to the land of gloom and utter darkness,

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25 - They grope in darkness with no light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:22 - He despairs of escaping the realm of darkness; he is marked for the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:23 - He wanders about for food like a vulture; he knows 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 the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:12 - turn night into day; in the face of the darkness light is near.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:13 - If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:8 - He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:26 - total darkness lies in wait for his treasures. A fire unfanned 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 am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:16 - In the dark, thieves break into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do with the light.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:3 - Mortals put an end to the darkness; they search out the farthest recesses for ore in the blackest darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:3 - when his lamp shone on my head and by his light I walked through darkness!

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:19 - “Tell us what we should say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:19 - “What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:11 - He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him— the dark rain clouds of the sky.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:28 - You, LORD, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 35:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:6 - may their path be dark and slippery, with the angel of the LORD pursuing them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 88:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:12 - Are your wonders known in the place of darkness, or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:20 - You bring darkness, it becomes night, and all the beasts of the forest prowl.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:28 - He sent darkness and made the land dark— for had they not rebelled against his words?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:10 - Some sat in darkness, in utter darkness, prisoners suffering in iron chains,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:14 - He brought them out of darkness, the utter darkness, and broke away their chains.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 112:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:4 - Even in darkness light dawns for the upright, for those who are gracious and compassionate and righteous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:11 - If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 139:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:12 - even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:13 - who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:20 - If someone curses their father or mother, their lamp will be snuffed out in pitch darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:13 - I saw that wisdom is better than folly, just as light is better than darkness.

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