חֹשֶׁךְ choshekh

Hebrew word for “darkness” · Strong’s H2822 · used 80 times in 77 verses

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Meaning

1) darkness, obscurity; 1a) darkness; 1b) secret place

How it is translated

Glosses given for choshekh in context, with how often each is used:

• darkness 79
• will be darkness 1

Where it is used

Also in 6 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 1 (4), Job 15 (3), Isaiah 45 (3), Exodus 10 (2), 2 Samuel 22 (2), Job 3 (2), Job 12 (2), Job 17 (2), Psalms 18 (2), Psalms 107 (2)

Forms

• חשׁך 47
• בחשׁך 14
• החשׁך 6
• לחשׁך 3
• וחשׁך 2
• חשׁכי 2
• ובחשׁך 2
• ולחשׁך 1
• והחשׁך 1
• מחשׁך 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with choshekh more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אוֹר or “light” 25
• צַלְמָוֶת tsalmavet “shadow” 8
• אֲפֵלָה aphelah “darkness” 5
• לַיְלָה laylah “night” 8
• עֲרָפֶל araphel “cloud” 4
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 9
• נֵר ner “lamp” 4
• נָגַהּ nagah “to shine” 3
• מָשַׁשׁ mashash “to feel” 3
• אֹפֶל ophel “darkness” 3
• רָאָה raah “to see” 8
• יָדַע yada “to know” 7

Key verses

The verses using choshekh that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Samuel 2:9 — He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
• Psalms 112:4 — Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
• Isaiah 9:2 — The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
• Isaiah 29:18 — And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
• Isaiah 42:7 — To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
• Isaiah 45:7 — I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
• Isaiah 45:19 — I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare…
• Isaiah 49:9 — That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all…
• Ezekiel 8:12 — Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they…
• Joel 2:2 — A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath…
• Amos 5:18 — Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
• Micah 7:8 — Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.

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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.