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# שְׁחוֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7815

**blackness** — 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

blackness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7815/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁחוֹר²: blackness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7815/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] blackness;—חָשַׁךְ מִשּׁ׳ תָּאֳרָם La 4:8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: than soot (1).

## In the verses

[Lamentations 4:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.4.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.4.8/#tree)

חָשַׁ֤ךְ מִשְּׁחוֹר֙ תָּֽאֳרָ֔ם לֹ֥א נִכְּר֖וּ בַּחוּצ֑וֹת צָפַ֤ד עוֹרָם֙ עַל־עַצְמָ֔ם יָבֵ֖שׁ הָיָ֥ה כָעֵֽץ׃ס

*Word for word:* it.is.dark more than.soot appearance their not they.are.recognized in the streets it.has.shriveled skin their on bone their dry it.has.become like (the) wood

*JPS 1917:* Their visage is blacker than coal; they are not known in the streets; their skin is shrivelled upon their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7815.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7815/): 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).