H2822 חֹשֶׁךְ
chôshek — the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
KJV: dark(-ness), night, obscurity.
Derived from חָשַׁךְ châshak (to be dark)
Occurs 80 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חֹ֫שֶׁךְ n.m. darkness, obscurity
- 1 darkness (opp. אוֹר)
- 2 = secret place(s); = hiding-place
- 3 fig.
- a = distress
- b = dread, terror, symbol. of judgment
- c = mourning
- d = perplexity; confusion
- e = ignorance
- f = evil, sin
- g = obscurity
Where it occurs
- Genesis 1:2 — The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the…
- Genesis 1:4 — God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
- Genesis 1:5 — God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.
- Genesis 1:18 — and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
- Exodus 10:21 — The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even…
- Exodus 10:22 — Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.
- Exodus 14:20 — It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was the cloud and the darkness, yet it gave light by…
- Deuteronomy 4:11 — You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness…
- Deuteronomy 5:23 — When you heard the voice out of the middle of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to…
- Joshua 2:5 — About the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, the men went out. Where the men went, I don’t know…