1) darkness, obscurity 1a) darkness 1b) secret place
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H2822 — חֹ֫שֶׁךְ
cho.shekh · darkness · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 1:2 · וְחֹ֖שֶׁךְNow the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.Genesis 1:4 · הַחֹֽשֶׁךְ׃God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.Genesis 1:5 · וְלַחֹ֖שֶׁךְGod called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” There was evening and there was morning, one day.Genesis 1:18 · הַחֹ֑שֶׁךְand 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 · חֹ֖שֶׁךְ · חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.”Exodus 10:22 · חֹֽשֶׁךְ־Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.Exodus 14:20 · וְהַחֹ֔שֶׁךְIt came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and the one didn’t come near the other all the night.Deuteronomy 4:11 · חֹ֖שֶׁךְYou came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.Deuteronomy 5:23 · הַחֹ֔שֶׁךְIt happened, when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;Joshua 2:5 · בַּחֹ֙שֶׁךְ֙It happened about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out. Where the men went, I don’t know. Pursue them quickly; for you will overtake them.”1 Samuel 2:9 · בַּחֹ֣שֶׁךְHe will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.2 Samuel 22:12 · חֹ֛שֶׁךְHe made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.2 Samuel 22:29 · חָשְׁכִּֽי׃For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness.Job 3:4 · חֹ֥שֶׁךְLet that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.Job 3:5 · חֹ֣שֶׁךְLet darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.Job 5:14 · חֹ֑שֶׁךְThey meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.Job 10:21 · חֹ֣שֶׁךְbefore I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;Job 12:22 · חֹ֑שֶׁךְHe uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.Job 12:25 · חֹ֥שֶׁךְThey grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.Job 15:22 · חֹ֑שֶׁךְHe doesn’t believe that he shall return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.Job 15:23 · חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.Job 15:30 · חֹ֗שֶׁךְHe shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God’s mouth shall he go away.Job 17:12 · חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.Job 17:13 · בַּ֝חֹ֗שֶׁךְIf I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,Job 18:18 · חֹ֑שֶׁךְHe shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.Job 19:8 · חֹ֣שֶׁךְHe has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.Job 20:26 · חֹשֶׁךְ֮All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.Job 22:11 · חֹ֥שֶׁךְor darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.Job 23:17 · חֹ֑שֶׁךְBecause I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.Job 24:16 · בַּחֹ֗שֶׁךְIn the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.Job 26:10 · חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.Job 28:3 · לַחֹ֗שֶׁךְMan sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.Job 29:3 · חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,Job 34:22 · חֹ֭שֶׁךְThere is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.Job 37:19 · חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃Teach us what we shall tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.Job 38:19 · וְ֝חֹ֗שֶׁךְ“What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,Psalm 18:11 · חֹ֨שֶׁךְ׀He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.Psalm 18:28 · חָשְׁכִּֽי׃For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.Psalm 35:6 · חֹ֥שֶׁךְLet their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh’s angel pursuing them.Psalm 88:12 · בַּחֹ֣שֶׁךְAre your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?Psalm 104:20 · חֹ֭שֶׁךְYou make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.Psalm 105:28 · חֹ֭שֶׁךְHe sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.Psalm 107:10 · חֹ֣שֶׁךְSome sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,Psalm 107:14 · מֵחֹ֣שֶׁךְHe brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds in sunder.Psalm 112:4 · בַּחֹ֣שֶׁךְLight dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.Psalm 139:11 · חֹ֣שֶׁךְIf I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;”Psalm 139:12 · חֹשֶׁךְ֮even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.Proverbs 2:13 · חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;Proverbs 20:20 · חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.Ecclesiastes 2:13 · הַחֹֽשֶׁךְ׃Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.Ecclesiastes 2:14 · בַּחֹ֣שֶׁךְThe wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.Ecclesiastes 5:17 · בַּחֹ֣שֶׁךְAll his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.Ecclesiastes 6:4 · וּבַחֹ֣שֶׁךְ · וּבַחֹ֖שֶׁךְfor it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.Ecclesiastes 11:8 · הַחֹ֔שֶׁךְYes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.Isaiah 5:20 · חֹ֤שֶׁךְ · לְחֹ֔שֶׁךְWoe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!Isaiah 5:30 · חֹ֔שֶׁךְThey will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.Isaiah 9:2 · בַּחֹ֔שֶׁךְThe people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.Isaiah 29:18 · וּמֵחֹ֔שֶׁךְIn that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.Isaiah 42:7 · חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.Isaiah 45:3 · חֹ֔שֶׁךְI will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name, even the God of Israel.Isaiah 45:7 · חֹ֔שֶׁךְI form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.Isaiah 45:19 · חֹ֔שֶׁךְI have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the seed of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.Isaiah 47:5 · בַחֹ֖שֶׁךְ“Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.Isaiah 49:9 · בַּחֹ֖שֶׁךְsaying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.Isaiah 58:10 · בַּחֹ֙שֶׁךְ֙and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;Isaiah 59:9 · חֹ֔שֶׁךְTherefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.Isaiah 60:2 · הַחֹ֙שֶׁךְ֙For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.Lamentations 3:2 · חֹ֥שֶׁךְHe has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.Amos 5:18 · חֹ֥שֶׁךְ“Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.Amos 5:20 · חֹ֛שֶׁךְWon’t the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?Micah 7:8 · בַּחֹ֔שֶׁךְDon’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.Nahum 1:8 · חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.Zephaniah 1:15 · חֹ֙שֶׁךְ֙That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,