חֹשֶׁךְchôshek
ח֫שֶׁךְ: darkness, obscurity
Pronunciation: kho-shek' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2822
Meanings
1. darkness (Genesis 1:2; Genesis 1:4; Isaiah 45:7)
2. = secret place(s) (Isaiah 45:3; Job 12:22; Job 34:22)
3. figurative (Ecclesiastes 11:8)
: (see Biblical Hebrew חֹשֶׁךְ darkness, √ חשׁך)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 80 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 1:2 The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
- Genesis 1:4 And God saw that the light was good. Then he separated the light from the darkness.
- Genesis 1:5 God called the light “day” and the darkness “night.” And evening passed and morning came, marking the first day.
- Genesis 1:18 to govern the day and night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
- Exodus 10:21 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Lift your hand toward heaven, and the land of Egypt will be covered with a darkness so thick you can feel it.”
- Exodus 10:22 So Moses lifted his hand to the sky, and a deep darkness covered the entire land of Egypt for three days.
See every passage
- Genesis 1:2, 1:4, 1:5, 1:18
- Exodus 10:21, 10:22, 14:20
- Deuteronomy 4:11, 5:23
- Joshua 2:5
- 1 Samuel 2:9
- 2 Samuel 22:12, 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 18:11, 18:28, 35:6, 88:12, 104:20, 105:28, 107:10, 107:14, 112:4, 139:11, 139:12
- Proverbs 2:13, 20:20
- Ecclesiastes 2:13, 2:14, 5:17, 6:4, 11:8
- Isaiah 5:20, 5:30, 9:2, 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, 32:8
- Joel 2:2, 2:31
- Amos 5:18, 5:20
- Micah 7:8
- Nahum 1:8
- Zephaniah 1:15
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).