Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
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מַחְשָׁךְ
H4285 · machshâk · makh-shawk' · Hebrew
Strong’s definition
darkness; concretely, a dark place
KJV usage
dark(-ness, place).
KJV renderings in this mapping
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
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.