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Blackish

שְׁחַרְחֹרStrong’s H7840

shecharchoret (she-char-cho-ret)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

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

“Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.”
Song of Solomon 1:6 KJV
Meaning
  1. Blackish
How it's translated
  • blackish 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Song of Solomon 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    שְׁחַרְחֹר shecharchoret · blackish

    blackish

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “blackish” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    BLACK'ISH, adjective

    Somewhat black; moderately black or dark.

    1. A leathern cup of old times.

    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.