{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H2822",
  "lemma": "חֹשֶׁךְ",
  "transliteration": "chôshek",
  "definition": "the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness",
  "kjv": "dark(-ness), night, obscurity.",
  "occurrences": 80,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H2821",
      "lemma": "חָשַׁךְ",
      "transliteration": "châshak",
      "meaning": "to be dark",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H2821"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "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"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:2",
      "text": "The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:4",
      "text": "God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:5",
      "text": "God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:18",
      "text": "and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 10:21",
      "text": "The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/10?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 10:22",
      "text": "Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/10?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 14:20",
      "text": "It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was the cloud and the darkness, yet it gave light by…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/14?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 4:11",
      "text": "You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/4?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 5:23",
      "text": "When you heard the voice out of the middle of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/5?v=23"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 2:5",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/2?v=5"
    }
  ],
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