Châshak — H2821

Definition

verb

to be dark (as withholding light); transitively, to darken

1. to be or become dark, grow dim, be darkened, be black, be hidden
1. (Qal)
1. to be or grow dark
2. to have a dark colour
3. to grow dim
2. (Hiphil)
1. to make dark, cause to be dark
2. to hide, conceal
3. to obscure, confuse (fig.)

Usually translated as

dark, darken, cause darkness, be dim, be black, be, hide

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• krýptō (G2928)
• skotía (G4653)
• skotízō (G4654)
• skotóō (G4656)

Occurrences

Châshak occurs 17 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (1), Job (3), Psalms (3), Ecclesiastes (2), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (1), Lamentations (2), Amos (2), Micah (1)

• Exodus 10:15 — For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened (וַתֶּחְשַׁ֣ךְ); and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
• Job 3:9 — Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark (יֶחְשְׁכוּ֮); let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
• Job 18:6 — The light shall be dark (חָשַׁ֣ךְ) in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
• Job 38:2 — Who is this that darkeneth (מַחְשִׁ֖יךְ) counsel by words without knowledge?
• Psalms 69:23 — Let their eyes be darkened (תֶּחְשַׁ֣כְנָה), that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
• Psalms 105:28 — He sent darkness, and made it dark (וַיַּחְשִׁ֑ךְ); and they rebelled not against his word.
• Psalms 139:12 — Yea, the darkness hideth (יַחְשִׁ֪יךְ) not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
• Ecclesiastes 12:2 — While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened (תֶחְשַׁ֤ךְ), nor the clouds return after the rain:
• Ecclesiastes 12:3 — In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened (וְחָשְׁכ֥וּ),
• Isaiah 5:30 — And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened (חָשַׁ֖ךְ) in the heavens thereof.
• Isaiah 13:10 — For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened (חָשַׁ֤ךְ) in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
• Jeremiah 13:16 — Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness (יַחְשִׁ֔ךְ), and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
• Lamentations 4:8 — Their visage is blacker (חָשַׁ֤ךְ) than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
• Lamentations 5:17 — For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim (חָשְׁכ֥וּ).
• Amos 5:8 — Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark (הֶחְשִׁ֑יךְ) with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
• Amos 8:9 — And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken (וְהַחֲשַׁכְתִּ֥י) the earth in the clear day:
• Micah 3:6 — Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark (וְחָשְׁכָ֥ה) unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.