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Lexicon :: Strong's H2822 - ḥōšeḵ

Aa
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 - And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:4 - And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:5 - Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:18 - To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:21 - And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out to heaven, and all the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men will be feeling their way about in the dark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:22 - And when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night came over all the land of Egypt for three days;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:20 - And it came between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel; and there was a dark cloud between them, and they went on through the night; but the one army came no nearer to the other all the night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:11 - And you came near, waiting at the foot of the mountain; and flames of fire went up from the mountain to the heart of heaven, with dark clouds, and all was black as night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:23 - And after hearing the voice which came out of the dark while the mountain was burning with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your chiefs came to me,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:5 - And when it was the time for shutting the doors at dark, they went out; I have no idea where the men went: but if you go after them quickly, you will overtake them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:9 - He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the evil-doers will come to their end in the dark night, for by strength no man will overcome.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:12 - And he made the dark his tent round him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:29 - For you are my light, O Lord; and the Lord will make the dark bright for me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:4 - That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:5 - Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:14 - In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:21 - Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:22 - Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25 - They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:22 - He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:23 - He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:30 - He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:12 - They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:13 - If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:18 - He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:8 - My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:26 - All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:11 - Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:17 - For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:16 - In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:10 - By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:3 - Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:3 - When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:22 - There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:19 - Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:19 - Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:11 - He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:28 - You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:6 - Let their way be dark and full of danger; let them be troubled by the angel of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:12 - May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:20 - When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:28 - He sent black night and made it dark; and they did not go against his word.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:10 - Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:14 - He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:4 - For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:11 - If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:13 - Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:20 - If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:13 - Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark.

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