Darkness
חֹ֫שֶׁךְStrong’s H2822choshekh (cho-shekh)
Appears in 77 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Choshekh is the Hebrew word usually translated “darkness” and “darkness my”. It appears in 77 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”
Meaning
- Darkness, obscuritydarkness · secret place
How it's translated
- darkness 49
- in the darkness 7
- in darkness 6
- the darkness 3
- and darkness 2
- and the darkness 2
- darkness my 2
- and in darkness 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 23
- Isaiah 13
- Psalms 11
- Ecclesiastes 5
- Genesis 4
- Exodus 3
18 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 1:4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
- Genesis 1:5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
- Genesis 1:18And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
- Exodus 10:21And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
- Exodus 10:22And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
- Exodus 14:20And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
All 77 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
חֹ֫שֶׁךְ choshekh · darkness
1) darkness, obscurity 1a) darkness 1b) secret place
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
- Absence of light.“And darkness was on the face of the deep” Genesis 1:2
- Obscurity; want of clearness or perspicuity; that quality or state which renders any thing difficult to be understood; as the darkness of counsels.
- A state of being intellectually clouded; ignorance.“Men loved darkness rather than light” John 3:19
- A private place; secrecy; privacy.“What I tell in darkness that speak ye in light” Matthew 10:27
All definitions
- Infernal gloom; hell; as utter darkness Matthew 22:13
- Great trouble and distress; calamities; perplexities.“A day of clouds and thick darkness Is” Joel 2:2
- Empire of Satan.“Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness” Colossians 1:13
- 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.