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# שַׁחֲרוּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7839

**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/1513/7839/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׁחֲרוּת: n.f. blackness dawn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7839/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. according to DeComm. RüetschiKau blackness, viz. of hair (so 𝔗), i.e. (RV) prime of life (which Wild allows); usually dawn of youth (II. שׁחר);—Ec 11:10 (+ יַלְדוּת).

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 11:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.11.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.11.10/#tree)

וְהָסֵ֥ר כַּ֙עַס֙ מִלִּבֶּ֔ךָ וְהַעֲבֵ֥ר רָעָ֖ה מִבְּשָׂרֶ֑ךָ כִּֽי־הַיַּלְד֥וּת וְהַֽשַּׁחֲר֖וּת הָֽבֶל׃

*Word for word:* and remove vexation from heart your and put.away evil from flesh your (dm) (the) youth and the.black hair \[are\].futility

*JPS 1917:* Therefore remove vexation from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for childhood and youth are vanity.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7839.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7839/): 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).