To darken
חָשַׁךְStrong’s H2821chashakh (cha-shakh)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chashakh is the Hebrew word usually translated “it is dark”, “it grew dark” and “let them grow dark”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“For 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.”
Meaning
- To be or become dark, grow dim, be darkened, be black, be hidden(Qal) · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
- it is dark 2
- and it grew dark 1
- let them grow dark 1
- it grows dark 1
- making dark 1
- may they grow dim 1
- and he made dark 1
- it will become dark 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 3
- Psalms 3
- Ecclesiastes 2
- Isaiah 2
- Lamentations 2
- Amos 2
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 3:9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
- Job 18:6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
- Job 38:2Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
- Psalms 69:23Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
- Psalms 105:28He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
- 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.
Hebrew dictionary
חָשַׁךְ chashakh · to darken
1) to be or become dark, grow dim, be darkened, be black, be hidden 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be or grow dark 1a2) to have a dark colour 1a3) to grow dim 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to make dark, cause to be dark 1b2) to hide, conceal 1b3) to obscure, confuse (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “darken” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
D'ARKEN, verb intransitive
To grow dark or darker; also, to grow less white or clear.
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.