To darken
עָמַםStrong’s H6004amam (a-mam)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Amam is the Hebrew word usually translated “it is dimmed”, “people hold dark from you” and “eclipsed it”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.”
Meaning
- To dim, darken, grow dark(Qal) to dim, eclipse, be held dark · (Hophal) to be dimmed, grow dark
How it's translated
- it is dimmed 1
- people hold dark from you 1
- they eclipsed it 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 2
- Lamentations 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezekiel 28:3Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
- Ezekiel 31:8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
Hebrew dictionary
עָמַם amam · to darken
1) to dim, darken, grow dark 1a) (Qal) to dim, eclipse, be held dark 1b) (Hophal) to be dimmed, grow dark
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.