מַחְשָׁךְ (maḥšāk) is
a Hebrew noun
meaning dark place. It appears
7 times
in 3 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H4285).
Also rendered
darkness
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 769d)
Range of meaning (TWOT 769d)dark place; darkness; dark
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
מַחְשָׁךְnoun, masculine: dark place
dark place (poetic)
Strong's H4285מַחְשָׁךְ: darkness; concretely, a dark place KJV:dark(-ness, place).
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: חָשַׁךְḥāšak — be, grow dark; be dark, withholding, darken; be black, cause darkness, be dim, hide