H2821 חָשַׁךְ
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 18 KJV occurrences
חָשַׁךְ
châshak · khaw-shak'
Definition
to be dark (as withholding light); transitively, to darken
KJV Renderings
be black, be (make) dark, darken, cause darkness, be dim, hide.
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 18)
- Exodus 10:15For 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 18:6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
- Psalms 69:23Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
- Psalms 139:12Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
- Isaiah 5:30And 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.
- Jeremiah 13:16Give 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.
- Lamentations 5:17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
- Amos 5:8Seek 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 waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name: