Strong's #4285: machshak (pronounced makh-shawk')

from 2821; darkness; concretely, a dark place:--dark(-ness, place).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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machshâk

1) dark place, darkness, secrecy

1a) hiding-place

1b) dark region

1c) grave

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H2821

Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

 

Psalms 74:20: "Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty."
Psalms 88:6: "Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps."
Psalms 88:18: "hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness."
Psalms 143:3: "my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead."
Isaiah 29:15: "from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth"
Isaiah 42:16: "that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight."
Lamentations 3:6: "He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old."