# H4285 מַחְשָׁךְ

מַחְשָׁךְ (machshâk), Strong’s H4285: darkness; concretely, a dark place KJV: dark(-ness, place).. Occurs 7 times.

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*machshâk* — darkness; concretely, a dark place

KJV: dark(-ness, place).

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

Occurs 7 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מַחְשָׁךְ n.m. dark place (poet.)

## Where it occurs
- [Isaiah 29:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/29?v=15) — Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from the LORD, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?”…
- [Isaiah 42:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/42?v=16) — I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make…
- [Psalms 74:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/74?v=20) — Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
- [Psalms 88:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/88?v=7) — You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
- [Psalms 88:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/88?v=19) — You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.
- [Psalms 143:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/143?v=3) — For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those…
- [Lamentations 3:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/lamentations/3?v=6) — He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead.