Darkened
חוּםStrong’s H2345chum
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chum is the Hebrew word usually translated “dark”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.”
Meaning
- Dark colour, darkened, dark brown or black
How it's translated
- dark 3
- and dark 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 4
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 30:33So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
- Genesis 30:35And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
- Genesis 30:40And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban’s cattle.
Hebrew dictionary
חוּם chum · darkened
dark colour, darkened, dark brown or black
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “darkened” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
D'ARKENED, participle passive
Deprived of light; obscured; rendered dim; made black; made ignorant.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.