Strong's Hebrew · H2821
חָשַׁךְ
châshak · khaw-shak'
Definitionto be dark (as withholding light); transitively, to darken
Derivationa primitive root;
KJV usagebe black, be (make) dark, darken, cause darkness, be dim, hide.
Occurrences17 in the KJV · 17 verses
חָשַׁךְ in Scripture
Exodus 10:15
For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Job 3:9
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
Job 18:6
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
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.
Psalms 139:12
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee .
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:
Ecclesiastes 12:3
In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
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 in the heavens thereof.
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 her light to shine.
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 the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
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