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# חֲשֵׁכָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2825

**darkness** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

darkness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2825/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲשֵׁכָה: n.f. darkness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2825/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. darkness (chiefly poet.)—ח׳ Gn 15:12 + 2 times, so read also prob. Mi 3:6 (for MT חָֽשְׁכָה); חֲשֵׁיכָה ψ 139:12; cstr. חֶשְׁכַּת ψ 18:12; pl. חֲשֵׁכִים Is 50:10;—darkness, opp. light (אוֹרָה) ψ 139:12; supernat., ח׳ גדולה Gn 15:12 (JE); חֶשְׁכַּת־מַיִם ψ 18:12 in theoph. (but ‖ 2 S 22:12 חַשְׁרַת־מים a mass of water); fig. = lack of understanding ψ 82:5; = distress Is 8:22 (‖ צָרָה), 50:10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: darkness (5); darkness(es) (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 18:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.12/#tree)

יָ֤שֶׁת חֹ֨שֶׁךְ ׀ סִתְר֗וֹ סְבִֽיבוֹתָ֥יו סֻכָּת֑וֹ חֶשְׁכַת־מַ֝֗יִם עָבֵ֥י שְׁחָקִֽים׃

*Word for word:* he.made darkness covering his around him canopy his darkness of.waters dark.clouds of.clouds

*JPS 1917:* He made darkness His hiding-place, His pavilion round about Him; darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

[Psalms 82:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.82.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.82.5/#tree)

לֹ֤א יָֽדְע֨וּ ׀ וְלֹ֥א יָבִ֗ינוּ בַּחֲשֵׁכָ֥ה יִתְהַלָּ֑כוּ יִ֝מּ֗וֹטוּ כָּל־מ֥וֹסְדֵי אָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* not they.know and not they.understand in darkness they.walk.about they.are.shaken all \[the\].foundations of.\[the\].earth

*JPS 1917:* They know not, neither do they understand; they go about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are moved.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2825.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2825/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).