Machshâk — H4285

Definition

masculine noun

darkness; concretely, a dark place

1. dark place, darkness, secrecy
1. hiding-place
2. dark region
3. grave

Usually translated as

darkness, dark

Origin

from H2821

• Derived from Châshak (H2821)

Greek equivalents

• talaipōría (G5004)

Occurrences

Machshâk occurs 7 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Psalms (4), Isaiah (2), Lamentations (1)

• Psalms 74:20 — Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places (מַחֲשַׁכֵּי) of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
• Psalms 88:6 — Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness (בְּ֝מַחֲשַׁכִּ֗ים), in the deeps.
• Psalms 88:18 — Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness (מַחְשָֽׁךְ).
• Psalms 143:3 — For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness (בְ֝מַחֲשַׁכִּ֗ים), as those that have been long dead.
• Isaiah 29:15 — Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark (בְמַחְשָׁךְ֙), and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
• Isaiah 42:16 — And 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 (מַחְשָׁ֨ךְ) light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
• Lamentations 3:6 — He hath set me in dark places (בְּמַחֲשַׁכִּ֥ים), as they that be dead of old.