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Darkness

חֲשׁוֹךְStrong’s H2816

chashokh (cha-shokh)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Chashokh is the Aramaic word usually translated “darkness the”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.”
Daniel 2:22 KJV
Meaning
  1. Darkness
How it's translated
  • in darkness the 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Daniel 1

1 book in all.

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    Aramaic dictionary

    חֲשׁוֹךְ chashokh · darkness

    darkness Aramaic of mach.shakh (מַחְשָׁךְ "darkness" H4285)

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “darkness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    D'ARKNESS, noun

    1. Absence of light.“And darkness was on the face of the deep” Genesis 1:2
    2. Obscurity; want of clearness or perspicuity; that quality or state which renders any thing difficult to be understood; as the darkness of counsels.
    3. A state of being intellectually clouded; ignorance.“Men loved darkness rather than light” John 3:19
    4. A private place; secrecy; privacy.“What I tell in darkness that speak ye in light” Matthew 10:27
    All definitions
    1. Infernal gloom; hell; as utter darkness Matthew 22:13
    2. Great trouble and distress; calamities; perplexities.“A day of clouds and thick darkness Is” Joel 2:2
    3. Empire of Satan.“Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness” Colossians 1:13
    4. Opakeness.

    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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.