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:
Ecclesiastes 5:17: "his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness."
Ecclesiastes 6:4: "he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness."
Ecclesiastes 6:4: "and his name shall be covered with darkness."
Ecclesiastes 11:8: "yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All"
Isaiah 5:20: "evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put"
Isaiah 5:20: "darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet"
Isaiah 5:30: "and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens"
Isaiah 9:2: "The people that walked in darkness have seen light: they that dwell in the land"
Isaiah 29:18: "of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. and out of darkness."
Isaiah 42:7: "from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house."
Isaiah 45:3: "And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches that thou mayest know that"
Isaiah 45:7: "I form the light, and create darkness: peace, and create evil:"
Isaiah 45:19: "I have not spoken in secret, in a dark of the earth: I said not"
Isaiah 47:5: "Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no"
Isaiah 49:9: "to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways,"
Isaiah 58:10: "soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:"
Isaiah 59:9: "overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk"
Isaiah 60:2: "For, behold, the darkness shall cover and gross darkness the people: but the LORD"
Lamentations 3:2: "He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not"
Ezekiel 8:12: "of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for"
Ezekiel 32:8: "over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord"
Joel 2:2: "A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day and of thick darkness, as the morning spread"
Joel 2:31: "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon before the great and the terrible"
Amos 5:18: "is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light."
Amos 5:20: "Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, light? even very dark, and no"
Micah 7:8: "I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light"
Nahum 1:8: "he will make an utter end thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies."
Zephaniah 1:15: "of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,"
