חָשַׁךְ châshak

Meaning

to be dark (as withholding light); transitively, to darken

In the King James Version: be black, be (make) dark, darken, cause darkness, be dim, hide.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Exodus 10:15 They covered the face of all the land until it was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left behind. Nothing green was left on any tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.
• Job 3:9 May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.
• Job 18:6 The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
• Job 38:2 “Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
• Psalms 69:23 May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.
• Psalms 105:28 He sent darkness, and it became dark—yet they defied His words.
• Psalms 139:12 even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
• Ecclesiastes 12:2 before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,
• Ecclesiastes 12:3 on the day the keepers of the house tremble and the strong men stoop, when those grinding cease because they are few and those watching through windows see dimly,
• Isaiah 5:30 In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.
• Isaiah 13:10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.
• Jeremiah 13:16 Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
• Lamentations 4:8 But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.
• Lamentations 5:17 Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
• Amos 5:8 He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—
• Amos 8:9 And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
• Micah 3:6 Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.