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Dark

חֶשְׁכָהStrong’s H2824

cheshkhah (chesh-khah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

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

“He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.”
Psalms 18:11 KJV
Meaning
  1. Darkness, obscure, low
How it's translated
  • darkness of 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    חֶשְׁכָה cheshkhah · dark

    darkness, obscure, low Another spelling of cha.she.khah (חֲשֵׁכָה "darkness" H2825)

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

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    D'ARK, adjective

    1. Destitute of light; obscure.
    2. Wholly or partially black; having the quality opposite to white; as a dark color or substance.
    3. Gloomy; disheartening; having unfavorable prospects; as a dark time in political affairs.
    4. Obscure; not easily understood or explained; as a dark passage in an author; a dark saying.
    All definitions and other forms of “dark”
    1. Mysterious; as, the ways of Providence are often dark to human reason.
    2. Not enlightened with knowledge; destitute of learning and science; rude; ignorant; as a dark age.
    3. Not vivid; partially black. Leviticus 13:6
    4. Blind.
    5. Gloomy; not cheerful; as a dark temper.
    6. Obscure; concealed; secret; not understood; as a dark design.
    7. Unclean; foul.
    8. Opake.
    9. Keeping designs concealed.

    D'ARK, noun

    1. Darkness; obscurity; the absence of light.
    2. Obscurity; secrecy; a state unknown; as, things done in the dark
    3. Obscurity; a state of ignorance; as, we are all in the dark

    D'ARK, verb transitive

    1. To make dark; to deprive of light; as, close the shutters and darken the room.
    2. To obscure; to cloud.
    3. To make black.
    4. To make dim; to deprive of vision.“Let their eyes be darkened” Romans 11:10
    5. To render gloomy; as, all joy is darkened.
    6. To deprive of intellectual vision; to render ignorant or stupid.“Their foolish heart was darkened” Romans 1:21“Having the understanding darkened” Ephesians 4:18
    7. To obscure; to perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
    8. To render less white or clear; to tan; as, a burning sun darkens the complexion.
    9. To sully; to make foul.

    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.