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# שָׁחַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7835

**be black** — 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

be black [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7835/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁחַר: vb. be black [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7835/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be black (NH שָׁחוֹר and deriv., black, blackness, etc., Ecclus 25:17 Hiph. make black; Aramaic שְׁחַר (Jastr Dalm), Aph. grow black, so ܫܚܰܪ, ܫܘܽܚܳܪܳܐ coal; JägerBAS ii. 295 cp. Assyrian šûru, coal); Pf. שׁ׳, of skin Jb 30:30.

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 (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: it has become black (1).

## In the verses

[Job 30:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.30/#tree)

ע֭וֹרִישָׁחַ֣ר מֵעָלָ֑י וְעַצְמִי־חָ֝֗רָה מִנִּי־חֹֽרֶב׃

*Word for word:* skin my it.has.become.black from on me and bone my it.has.burned from heat

*JPS 1917:* My skin is black, and falleth from me, and my bones are burned with heat.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7835.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7835/): 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).