חָשַׁךְ chashakh
Hebrew word for “to darken” · Strong’s H2821 · used 17 times in 17 verses
Meaning
1) to be or become dark, grow dim, be darkened, be black, be hidden;
How it is translated
Glosses given for chashakh in context, with how often each is used:
- grew dark 1
- them grow dark 1
- grows dark 1
- making dark 1
- may they grow dim 1
- made dark 1
- too dark 1
- will become dark 1
- will grow dim 1
- has become dark 1
- will be dark 1
- will bring darkness 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Job | 3 | 0.4 | |
| Psalms | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Ecclesiastes | 2 | 0.7 | |
| Isaiah | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Lamentations | 2 | 1.3 | |
| Amos | 2 | 1.0 | |
| Exodus | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Jeremiah | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Micah | 1 | 0.7 |
Chapters where it is used most
Ecclesiastes 12 (2), Exodus 10 (1), Job 3 (1), Job 18 (1), Job 38 (1), Psalms 69 (1), Psalms 105 (1), Psalms 139 (1), Isaiah 5 (1), Isaiah 13 (1)
Forms
- חשׁך 4
- ותחשׁך 1
- יחשׁכו 1
- מחשׁיך 1
- תחשׁכנה 1
- ויחשׁך 1
- יחשׁיך 1
- תחשׁך 1
- וחשׁכו 1
- יחשׁך 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with chashakh more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- אוֹר or “light” 7
- שֶׁמֶשׁ shemesh “sun” 4
- כּוֹכָב kokhav “star” 3
- כְּסִיל kesil “Orion” 2
- חֹשֶׁךְ choshekh “darkness” 3
- נֶשֶׁף nesheph “twilight” 2
- צַלְמָוֶת tsalmavet “shadow” 2
- לַיְלָה laylah “night” 3
- יָרֵחַ yareach “moon” 2
- קָוָה qavah “to await” 2
- עַיִן ayin “eye” 3
- רָאָה raah “to see” 3
Key verses
The verses using chashakh that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Job 38:2 — Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
- Psalms 69:23 — Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
- Psalms 105:28 — He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
- Ecclesiastes 12:2 — While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
- Isaiah 5:30 — And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened…
- Isaiah 13:10 — For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause…
- Jeremiah 13:16 — Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into…
- Lamentations 4:8 — Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
- Lamentations 5:17 — For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
- Amos 5:8 — Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the…
- Amos 8:9 — And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
- Micah 3:6 — Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the…
See all 17 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.