choshek (חֹשֶׁךְ) — Hebrew word meaning “darkness”

חֹשֶׁךְ

choshek

darkness

Strong's H2822NounHebrewTWOT 769aCreation

חֹשֶׁךְ (choshek) is a Hebrew noun meaning darkness. It appears 80 times in 18 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H2822).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 769a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 769a)darkness, obscurity; secret place(s), hiding-place; dark, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness; night

Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

חֹ֫שֶׁךְ noun, masculine: darkness, obscurity

1.darkness (opposite אוֹר)
2.secret place(s); = hiding-place
3.figuratively
- a.distress
- b.dread, terror, symbol. of judgment
- c.mourning
- d.perplexity; confusion
- e.ignorance
- f.evil, sin
- g.obscurity

Strong's H2822 חֹשֶׁךְ: the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
KJV:dark(-ness), night, obscurity.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 769: חָשַׁךְ ḥāšak — be, grow dark; be dark, withholding, darken; be black, cause darkness, be dim, hide

See it in Scripture

Genesis 1:2 Deuteronomy 4:11 Joshua 2:5

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