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# כִּמְרִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3650

**darkness** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

darkness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3650/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כִּמְרִיר: n.m. darkness, gloominess [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3650/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. darkness, gloominess(?) pl. intens. cstr. כִּמְרִירֵי יוֹם Jb 3:5 the deep gloom of day (‖ חֹשֶׁךְ, צלמות, עֲנָנָה);—read כַּמ׳, v. Di Sta§ 231.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 3:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.5/#tree)

יִגְאָלֻ֡הוּ חֹ֣שֶׁךְ וְ֭צַלְמָוֶת תִּשְׁכָּן־עָלָ֣יו עֲנָנָ֑ה יְ֝בַעֲתֻ֗הוּ כִּֽמְרִ֥ירֵי יֽוֹם׃

*Word for word:* let them.reclaim.it darkness and deep.darkness let.it.settle.down over it cloud let them.terrify.it \[the\].darkness(es) of.day

*JPS 1917:* Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; let a cloud dwell upon it; let all that maketh black the day terrify it.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3650/): 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).