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H2821חָשַׁךְcha.shakh

to darkenPart of speech: Hebrew Verb

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Occurrences by book

  1. Genesis: 0
  2. 1
  3. Leviticus: 0
  4. Numbers: 0
  5. Deuteronomy: 0
  6. Joshua: 0
  7. Judges: 0
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 1 Samuel: 0
  10. 2 Samuel: 0
  11. 1 Kings: 0
  12. 2 Kings: 0
  13. 1 Chronicles: 0
  14. 2 Chronicles: 0
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. 3
  19. 3
  20. Proverbs: 0
  21. 2
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. 2
  24. 1
  25. 2
  26. Ezekiel: 0
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. Hosea: 0
  29. Joel: 0
  30. 2
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. 1
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. Zechariah: 0
  39. Malachi: 0

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17 occurrences in 17 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Exodus 10:15

    For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; and there remained not any green thing, either tree or herb of the field, throug

    וַתֶּחְשַׁ֣ךְ (תֶּחְשַׁ֣ךְ) tech.Shakh “it grew dark”

  2. Job 3:9

    Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning;

    יֶחְשְׁכוּ֮ yech.she.Khu “let them grow dark”

  3. Job 18:6

    The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.

    חָשַׁ֣ךְ cha.Shakh “it grows dark”

  4. Job 38:2

    Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

    מַחְשִׁ֖יךְ mach.Shikh “[is] making dark”

  5. Psalms 69:24

    Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to totter.

    תֶּחְשַׁ֣כְנָה tech.Shakh.nah “may they grow dim”

  6. Psalms 105:28

    He sent darkness, and it was dark; and they rebelled not against His word.

    וַיַּחְשִׁ֑ךְ (יַּחְשִׁ֑ךְ) i.yach.Shikh “he made dark”

  7. Psalms 139:12

    Even the darkness is not too dark for Thee, but the night shineth as the day; the darkness is even as the light.

    יַחְשִׁ֪יךְ yach.Shikh “it is [too] dark”

  8. Ecclesiastes 12:2

    Before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

    תֶחְשַׁ֤ךְ tech.Shakh “it will become dark”

  9. Ecclesiastes 12:3

    In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out shall be darkened in the windows,

    וְחָשְׁכ֥וּ (חָשְׁכ֥וּ) cha.she.Khu “they will grow dim”

  10. Isaiah 5:30

    And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea; and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and distress, and the light is darkened in the skies thereof.

    חָשַׁ֖ךְ cha.Shakh “it has become dark”

  11. Isaiah 13:10

    For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

    חָשַׁ֤ךְ cha.Shakh “it will be dark”

  12. Jeremiah 13:16

    Give glory to the LORD your God, before it grow dark, and before your feet stumble upon the mountains of twilight, and, while ye look for light, He turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

    יַחְשִׁ֔ךְ yach.Shikh “he will bring darkness”

  13. Lamentations 4:8

    Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets; their skin is shrivelled upon their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

    חָשַׁ֤ךְ cha.Shakh “it is dark”

  14. Lamentations 5:17

    For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dim;

    חָשְׁכ֥וּ cha.she.Khu “they have grown dim”

  15. Amos 5:8

    Him that maketh the Pleiades and Orion, and bringeth on the shadow of death in the morning, and darkeneth the day into night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth; the LORD is His name;

    הֶחְשִׁ֑יךְ hech.Shikh “he makes dark”

  16. Amos 8:9

    And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

    וְהַחֲשַׁכְתִּ֥י (הַחֲשַׁכְתִּ֥י) ha.cha.shakh.Ti “I will make dark”

  17. Micah 3:6

    Therefore it shall be night unto you, that ye shall have no vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.

    וְחָשְׁכָ֥ה (חָשְׁכָ֥ה) cha.she.Khah “it will grow dark”