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Darkness

קַדְרוּתStrong’s H6940

qadrut (qad-rut)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

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

“I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.”
Isaiah 50:3 KJV
Meaning
  1. Darkness, gloom
How it's translated
  • darkness 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Isaiah 1

1 book in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
    Hebrew dictionary

    קַדְרוּת qadrut · darkness

    darkness, gloom

    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

    1. Absence of light.“And darkness was on the face of the deep” Genesis 1:2
    2. Obscurity; want of clearness or perspicuity; that quality or state which renders any thing difficult to be understood; as the darkness of counsels.
    3. A state of being intellectually clouded; ignorance.“Men loved darkness rather than light” John 3:19
    4. A private place; secrecy; privacy.“What I tell in darkness that speak ye in light” Matthew 10:27
    All definitions
    1. Infernal gloom; hell; as utter darkness Matthew 22:13
    2. Great trouble and distress; calamities; perplexities.“A day of clouds and thick darkness Is” Joel 2:2
    3. Empire of Satan.“Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness” Colossians 1:13
    4. 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.