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H2822חֹ֫שֶׁךְcho.shekh

darknessPart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

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Occurrences by book

  1. 4
  2. 4
  3. Leviticus: 0
  4. Numbers: 0
  5. 2
  6. 1
  7. Judges: 0
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 1
  10. 2
  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. 23
  19. 11
  20. 2
  21. 6
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. 14
  24. Jeremiah: 0
  25. 1
  26. 2
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. Hosea: 0
  29. 2
  30. 2
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. 1
  34. 1
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. 1
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. Zechariah: 0
  39. Malachi: 0

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80 occurrences in 77 verses

With their references and text in Bible in Basic English.

  1. Job 19:8

    My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

    חֹ֣שֶׁךְ Cho.shekh “darkness”

  2. Job 20:26

    All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.

    חֹשֶׁךְ֮ cho.sheKh “darkness”

  3. Job 22:11

    Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

    חֹ֥שֶׁךְ Cho.shekh “darkness”

  4. Job 23:17

    For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

    חֹ֑שֶׁךְ Cho.shekh “darkness”

  5. Job 24:16

    In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

    בַּחֹ֗שֶׁךְ (חֹ֗שֶׁךְ) Cho.shekh “darkness”

  6. Job 26:10

    By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

    חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃ Cho.shekh “darkness”

  7. Job 28:3

    Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.

    לַחֹ֗שֶׁךְ (חֹ֗שֶׁךְ) Cho.shekh “darkness”

  8. Job 29:3

    When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.

    חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃ Cho.shekh “darkness”

  9. Job 34:22

    There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

    חֹ֭שֶׁךְ Cho.shekh “[is] darkness”

  10. Job 37:19

    Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.

    חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃ Cho.shekh “darkness”

  11. Job 38:19

    Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

    וְ֝חֹ֗שֶׁךְ (חֹ֗שֶׁךְ) Cho.shekh “darkness”

  12. Psalms 18:11

    He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

    חֹ֨שֶׁךְ׀ Cho.shekh “darkness”

  13. Psalms 18:28

    You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.

    חָשְׁכִּֽי׃ (חָשְׁכִּֽ) cha.she.K “darkness”

  14. Psalms 35:6

    Let their way be dark and full of danger; let them be troubled by the angel of the Lord.

    חֹ֥שֶׁךְ Cho.shekh “darkness”

  15. Psalms 88:12

    May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?

    בַּחֹ֣שֶׁךְ (חֹ֣שֶׁךְ) Cho.shekh “darkness”

  16. Psalms 104:20

    When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.

    חֹ֭שֶׁךְ Cho.shekh “darkness”

  17. Psalms 105:28

    He sent black night and made it dark; and they did not go against his word.

    חֹ֭שֶׁךְ Cho.shekh “darkness”

  18. Psalms 107:10

    Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;

    חֹ֣שֶׁךְ Cho.shekh “darkness”

  19. Psalms 107:14

    He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.

    מֵחֹ֣שֶׁךְ (חֹ֣שֶׁךְ) Cho.shekh “darkness”

  20. Psalms 112:4

    For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.

    בַּחֹ֣שֶׁךְ (חֹ֣שֶׁךְ) Cho.shekh “darkness”

  21. Psalms 139:11

    If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

    חֹ֣שֶׁךְ Cho.shekh “darkness”

  22. Psalms 139:12

    Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

    חֹשֶׁךְ֮ cho.sheKh “darkness”

  23. Proverbs 2:13

    Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;

    חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃ Cho.shekh “darkness”

  24. Proverbs 20:20

    If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.

    חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃ Cho.shekh “darkness”

  25. Ecclesiastes 2:13

    Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark.

    הַחֹֽשֶׁךְ׃ (חֹֽשֶׁךְ) Cho.shekh “darkness”