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ORIGINAL WORD · STRONG’S

חֹשֶׁךְ

H2822 · chôshek · kho-shek' · Hebrew

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Strong’s definition

the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness

KJV usage

dark(-ness), night, obscurity.

80mapped occurrences
77verses
4KJV renderings
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KJV renderings in this mapping

darkness 70dark 7obscurity 2night 1

Strong’s is a useful concordance and lexical reference layer. It does not by itself determine the meaning of a word in every context and is not a substitute for the verse, passage, or full grammatical analysis. Hebrew / Aramaic XML data: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0).

Mapped occurrences

Ecclesiastes 2:13Mapped KJV word: darkness

Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.

Ecclesiastes 2:14Mapped KJV word: darkness

The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.

Ecclesiastes 5:17Mapped KJV word: darkness

All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

Ecclesiastes 6:4Mapped KJV word: darkness

For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

Ecclesiastes 6:4Mapped KJV word: darkness

For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

Ecclesiastes 11:8Mapped KJV word: darkness

But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

Isaiah 5:20Mapped KJV word: darkness

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:20Mapped KJV word: darkness

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:30Mapped KJV word: darkness

And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

Isaiah 9:2Mapped KJV word: darkness

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

Isaiah 29:18Mapped KJV word: darkness

And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

Isaiah 42:7Mapped KJV word: darkness

To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

Isaiah 45:3Mapped KJV word: darkness

And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.

Isaiah 45:7Mapped KJV word: darkness

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Isaiah 45:19Mapped KJV word: dark

I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

Isaiah 47:5Mapped KJV word: darkness

Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

Isaiah 49:9Mapped KJV word: darkness

That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

Isaiah 58:10Mapped KJV word: obscurity

And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:

Isaiah 59:9Mapped KJV word: obscurity

Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

Isaiah 60:2Mapped KJV word: darkness

For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

Lamentations 3:2Mapped KJV word: darkness

He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

Ezekiel 8:12Mapped KJV word: dark

Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.

Ezekiel 32:8Mapped KJV word: darkness

All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.

Joel 2:2Mapped KJV word: darkness

A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.

Joel 2:31Mapped KJV word: darkness

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

Amos 5:18Mapped KJV word: darkness

Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.

Amos 5:20Mapped KJV word: darkness

Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

Micah 7:8Mapped KJV word: darkness

Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.

Nahum 1:8Mapped KJV word: darkness

But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

Zephaniah 1:15Mapped KJV word: darkness

That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,