Darkness
חֲשׁוֹךְStrong’s H4285chashokh (cha-shokh)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chashokh is the Hebrew word usually translated “dark places”, “dark places of” and “darkness”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.”
Meaning
- Darkness
How it's translated
- in dark places 3
- dark places of 1
- darkness 1
- in a dark place 1
- dark place 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 4
- Isaiah 2
- Lamentations 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 88:6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
- Psalms 88:18Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
- Psalms 143:3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
- Isaiah 29:15Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
- Isaiah 42:16And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
- Lamentations 3:6He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
Hebrew 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
- 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.