שָׁחֹרshâchôr

black (Leviticus 13:31; Leviticus 13:37; Song of Solomon 5:11; Song of Solomon 1:5; Zechariah 6:2)

Pronunciation: shaw-khore' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7838

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 6 times in the Bible.

  • Leviticus 13:31 If the priest examines the scabby sore and finds that it is only skin-deep but there is no black hair on it, he must quarantine the person for seven days.
  • Leviticus 13:37 But if the color of the scabby sore does not change and black hair has grown on it, it has healed. The priest will then pronounce the person ceremonially clean.
  • Song of Solomon 1:5 I am dark but beautiful, O women of Jerusalem— dark as the tents of Kedar, dark as the curtains of Solomon’s tents.
  • Song of Solomon 5:11 His head is finest gold, his wavy hair is black as a raven.
  • Zechariah 6:2 The first chariot was pulled by red horses, the second by black horses,
  • Zechariah 6:6 The chariot with black horses is going north, the chariot with white horses is going west, and the chariot with dappled-gray horses is going south.”

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).