# H2821 חָשַׁךְ

חָשַׁךְ (châshak), Strong’s H2821: to be dark (as withholding light); transitively, to darken KJV: be black, be (make) dark, darken, cause darkness, be dim, hide.. Occurs 18 times.

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*châshak* — to be dark (as withholding light); transitively, to darken

KJV: be black, be (make) dark, darken, cause darkness, be dim, hide.

Occurs 18 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חָשַׁךְ be, grow dark

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 10:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/10?v=15) — For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land…
- [Isaiah 5:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/5?v=30) — They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and…
- [Isaiah 13:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/13?v=10) — For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out…
- [Jeremiah 13:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/13?v=16) — Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and…
- [Ezekiel 30:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/30?v=18) — At Tehaphnehes also the day will withdraw itself, when I break the yokes of Egypt there. The pride of her power will…
- [Amos 5:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/amos/5?v=8) — Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with…
- [Amos 8:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/amos/8?v=9) — It will happen in that day,” says the Lord GOD, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the…
- [Micah 3:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/micah/3?v=6) — “Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down…
- [Psalms 69:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/69?v=24) — Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent.
- [Psalms 105:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/105?v=28) — He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.