Strong H4285מַחְשָׁךְ
darkness
- Transliteration
- machshâk
- Pronunciation
- makh-shawk'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From H2821; darkness; concretely a dark place: - dark ({-ness} place).
Detailed definition
1) darkness, dark place, secrecy
1a) hiding-place
1b) dark region
1c) grave
Aramaic equivalent: cha.shokh (חֲשׁוֹךְ "darkness" H2816)
1a) hiding-place
1b) dark region
1c) grave
Aramaic equivalent: cha.shokh (חֲשׁוֹךְ "darkness" H2816)
In the Bible
Strong H4285 appears in 7 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- darkness4
- dark2
- place1
First verses
- Psalms 74:20Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
- Psalms 88:6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
- Psalms 88:18Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
- Psalms 143:3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
- Isaiah 29:15Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
- Isaiah 42:16And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
- Lamentations 3:6He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.