Dark
חֶשְׁכָהStrong’s H2825cheshkhah (chesh-khah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Cheshkhah is the Hebrew word usually translated “darkness” and “as darkness”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.”
Meaning
- Darkness, obscure, low
How it's translated
- darkness 2
- in darkness 1
- as darkness 1
- and darkness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
- Isaiah 2
- Genesis 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 82:5They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
- 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.
- Isaiah 8:22And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
- Isaiah 50:10Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
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
- Destitute of light; obscure.
- Wholly or partially black; having the quality opposite to white; as a dark color or substance.
- Gloomy; disheartening; having unfavorable prospects; as a dark time in political affairs.
- Obscure; not easily understood or explained; as a dark passage in an author; a dark saying.
All definitions and other forms of “dark”
- Mysterious; as, the ways of Providence are often dark to human reason.
- Not enlightened with knowledge; destitute of learning and science; rude; ignorant; as a dark age.
- Not vivid; partially black. Leviticus 13:6
- Blind.
- Gloomy; not cheerful; as a dark temper.
- Obscure; concealed; secret; not understood; as a dark design.
- Unclean; foul.
- Opake.
- Keeping designs concealed.
D'ARK, noun
- Darkness; obscurity; the absence of light.
- Obscurity; secrecy; a state unknown; as, things done in the dark
- Obscurity; a state of ignorance; as, we are all in the dark
D'ARK, verb transitive
- To make dark; to deprive of light; as, close the shutters and darken the room.
- To obscure; to cloud.
- To make black.
- To make dim; to deprive of vision.“Let their eyes be darkened” Romans 11:10
- To render gloomy; as, all joy is darkened.
- 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
- To obscure; to perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
- To render less white or clear; to tan; as, a burning sun darkens the complexion.
- 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.