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# קַדְרוּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6940

**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/1511/6940/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קַדְרוּת: n.f. darkness, gloom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6940/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. darkness, gloom;—אַלְבִּישׁ שָׁמַיִם ק׳ Is 50:3 (cf. √, Je 4:28; 1 K 18:45; ‖ שַׂק).

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: darkness (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 50:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.50.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.50.3/#tree)

אַלְבִּ֥ישׁ שָׁמַ֖יִם קַדְר֑וּת וְשַׂ֖ק אָשִׂ֥ים כְּסוּתָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* I.clothe \[the\].heavens darkness and sackcloth I.make covering their

*JPS 1917:* I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6940.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6940/): 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).