# H2822 חֹשֶׁךְ

חֹשֶׁךְ (chôshek), Strong’s H2822: the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness KJV: dark(-ness), night, obscurity.. Occurs 80 times.

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*chôshek* — the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness

KJV: dark(-ness), night, obscurity.

Derived from [חָשַׁךְ châshak](https://besorah.bible/word/H2821) (to be dark)

Occurs 80 times.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=4) — God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
- [Genesis 1:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/10?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/10?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/14?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/4?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/5?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/2?v=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…