Strong's #2821: chashak (pronounced khaw-shak')
a primitive root; to be dark (as withholding light); transitively, to darken:--be black, be (make) dark, darken, cause darkness, be dim, hide.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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châshak
1) to be or become dark, grow dim, be darkened, be black, be hidden
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be or grow dark
1a2) to have a dark colour
1a3) to grow dim
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to make dark, cause to be dark
1b2) to hide, conceal
1b3) to obscure, confuse (figuratively)
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 17 times:
Exodus 10:15: "of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb"
Job 3:9: "Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; let it see"
Job 18:6: "The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with"
Job 38:2: "Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without"
Psalms 69:23: "Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake."
Psalms 105:28: "He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against"
Psalms 139:12: "Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night as the day:"
Ecclesiastes 12:2: "or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after"
Ecclesiastes 12:3: "because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,"
Isaiah 5:30: "darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens"
Isaiah 13:10: "give the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light"
Jeremiah 13:16: "to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, your feet stumble upon"
Lamentations 4:8: "Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets:"
Lamentations 5:17: "for things our eyes are dim."
Amos 5:8: "and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters"
Amos 8:9: "to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:"
Micah 3:6: "Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun"
