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H4285מַחְשָׁךְmach.shakh

darknessPart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

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Occurrences by book

  1. Genesis: 0
  2. Exodus: 0
  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
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  13. 1 Chronicles: 0
  14. 2 Chronicles: 0
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. Job: 0
  19. 4
  20. Proverbs: 0
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. 2
  24. Jeremiah: 0
  25. 1
  26. Ezekiel: 0
  27. Daniel: 0
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  30. Amos: 0
  31. Obadiah: 0
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  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. Zechariah: 0
  39. Malachi: 0

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7 occurrences in 7 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Psalms 74:20

    Look upon the covenant; for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.

    מַחֲשַׁכֵּי־ ma.cha.sha.kei- “[the] dark places of”

  2. Psalms 88:7

    Thou hast laid me in the nether-most pit, in dark places, in the deeps.

    בְּ֝מַחֲשַׁכִּ֗ים (מַחֲשַׁכִּ֗ים) ma.cha.sha.Kim “[the] dark places”

  3. Psalms 88:19

    Friend and companion hast Thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

    מַחְשָֽׁךְ׃ mach.Shakh “darkness”

  4. Psalms 143:3

    For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath crushed my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

    בְ֝מַחֲשַׁכִּ֗ים (מַחֲשַׁכִּ֗ים) ma.cha.sha.Kim “dark places”

  5. Isaiah 29:15

    Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say: 'Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?'

    בְמַחְשָׁךְ֙ (מַחְשָׁךְ֙) mach.shoKh “a dark place”

  6. Isaiah 42:16

    And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, in paths that they knew not will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and rugged places plain. These things will I do, and I will not leave them undone.

    מַחְשָׁ֨ךְ mach.Shakh “[the] dark place”

  7. Lamentations 3:6

    He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

    בְּמַחֲשַׁכִּ֥ים (מַחֲשַׁכִּ֥ים) ma.cha.sha.Kim “dark places”