Blackness
שְׁחוֹרStrong’s H7815shechor (she-chor)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shechor is the Hebrew word usually translated “more than soot”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.”
Meaning
- Blackness
- (CLBL) pit
How it's translated
- more than soot 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Lamentations 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁחוֹר shechor · blackness
1) blackness 2) (CLBL) pit
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “blackness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BLACK'NESS, noun
The quality of being black; black color; darkness; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.
All definitions and other forms of “blackness”
BLACK'-PUDDING, noun
A kind of food made of blood and grain.
BLACK'-ROD, noun
[black and rod.]
In England, the usher belonging to the order of the garter; so called from the black rod which he carries. He is of the king's chamber and usher of Parliament.
BLACK-ROW GRAINS, noun
A species of iron stone or ore, found in the mines about Dudley in Staffordshire, England.
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.