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# שָׁחֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7838

**black** — 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

black [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7838/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁחֹר: adj. black [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7838/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. black;—שׁ׳ of hair Lv 13:31, 37 (P), so fpl. שְׁחֹרוֹת Ct 5:11; of skin, fs. שְׁחוֹרָה 1:5; of horses, mpl. שְׁחֹרִים Zc 6:2, 6.

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 (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: black (5); \[am\] black (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 5:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.11/#tree)

רֹאשׁ֖וֹ כֶּ֣תֶם פָּ֑ז קְוּצּוֹתָיו֙תַּלְתַּלִּ֔ים שְׁחֹר֖וֹת כָּעוֹרֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* head his \[is\].gold of.pure.gold locks his \[are\].curls black like (the) raven

*JPS 1917:* His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are curled, and black as a raven.

[Song of Songs 1:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.1.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.1.5/#tree)

שְׁחוֹרָ֤ה אֲנִי֙ וְֽנָאוָ֔ה בְּנ֖וֹת יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם כְּאָהֳלֵ֣י קֵדָ֔ר כִּירִיע֖וֹת שְׁלֹמֹֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[am\].black I and lovely O.daughters of.Jerusalem like the.tents of.Kedar like the.tent.curtains of.Solomon

*JPS 1917:* 'I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7838.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7838/): 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).