Strong's #6937: qadar (pronounced kaw-dar')
a primitive root; to be ashy, i.e. dark-colored; by implication, to mourn (in sackcloth or sordid garments):--be black(-ish), be (make) dark(-en), X heavily, (cause to) mourn.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
qâdar
1) to mourn, be dark
1a) (Qal) to be dark
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to darken
1b2) to cause to mourn
1c) (Hithpael) to grow dark
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 17 times:
1 Kings 18:45: "And it came to pass in the meanwhile, that the heaven was black with clouds"
Job 5:11: "To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety."
Job 6:16: " Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:"
Job 30:28: "I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation."
Psalms 35:14: "as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother."
Psalms 38:6: "I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day"
Psalms 42:9: "hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
Psalms 43:2: "dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
Jeremiah 4:28: "mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken"
Jeremiah 8:21: "of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold"
Jeremiah 14:2: "mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up."
Ezekiel 31:15: "waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field"
Ezekiel 32:7: "And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun"
Ezekiel 32:8: "the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon"
Joel 2:10: "shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:"
Joel 3:15: "The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining."
Micah 3:6: "and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over"
