Strong's #2822: choshek (pronounced kho-shek')
from 2821; the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness:--dark(-ness), night, obscurity.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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chôshek
1) darkness, obscurity
1a) darkness
1b) secret place
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H2821
Usage:
This word is used 78 times:
Genesis 1:2: "was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit"
Genesis 1:4: "divided the light from the darkness."
Genesis 1:5: "called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning"
Genesis 1:18: "and to divide from the darkness: and God saw that"
Exodus 10:21: "toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness"
Exodus 10:21: "over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt."
Exodus 10:22: "heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three"
Exodus 14:20: "of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one"
Deuteronomy 5:23: "the voice of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,)"
Joshua 2:5: "And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, went out: whither the men"
1 Samuel 2:9: "of his saints, and the wicked in darkness; for by strength shall no man"
2 Samuel 22:12: "And he made darkness pavilions round about waters, and thick clouds of the skies."
2 Samuel 22:29: "O LORD: will lighten my darkness."
Job 3:4: "Let that day be darkness; God regard it from above,"
Job 3:5: " Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud upon it; let the blackness of the day"
Job 5:14: "They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope as in the night."
Job 10:21: "return, the land of darkness and the shadow of death;"
Job 12:22: "He discovereth deep things out of darkness, to light the shadow of death."
Job 12:25: "They grope in the dark without light, like a drunken"
Job 15:22: "not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword."
Job 15:23: "that the day of darkness is ready at his hand."
Job 15:30: "He shall not depart out of darkness; shall dry up his branches, and by the breath"
Job 17:12: "the light because of darkness."
Job 17:13: "is mine house: my bed in the darkness."
Job 18:18: "He shall be driven from light into darkness, out of the world."
Job 19:8: "that I cannot pass, darkness in my paths."
Job 20:26: "All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: not blown shall consume"
Job 22:11: "Or darkness, that thou canst not see; of waters cover"
Job 23:17: "I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face."
Job 24:16: " In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked they know not the light."
Job 26:10: "the waters with bounds, until and night come to an end."
Job 28:3: "He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out perfection: the stones"
Job 29:3: "my head, I walked through darkness;"
Job 34:22: "There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, the workers of iniquity may hide themselves."
Job 37:19: "unto him; for we cannot our speech by reason of darkness."
Job 38:19: "Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place"
Psalms 18:28: "my God will enlighten my darkness."
Psalms 35:6: "Let their way be dark and slippery: of the LORD persecute"
Psalms 88:12: "Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness of forgetfulness?"
Psalms 104:20: "Thou makest darkness, and it is night: the beasts of the forest do creep"
Psalms 105:28: "He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled against his word."
Psalms 107:10: "Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound and iron;"
Psalms 107:14: "He brought them out of darkness of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke"
Psalms 112:4: "Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: and full of compassion, and righteous."
Psalms 139:11: "If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover shall be light about"
Psalms 139:12: "Yea, the darkness hideth not thee; but the night shineth as the day:"
Proverbs 2:13: "of uprightness, to walk of darkness;"
Proverbs 20:20: "his lamp in obscure darkness."
Ecclesiastes 2:13: "folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. darkness."
Ecclesiastes 2:14: "are in his head; but the fool in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event"
