מַחְשָׁךְ machshâk

Meaning

darkness; concretely, a dark place

In the King James Version: dark(-ness, place).

Derivation: from H2821 (חָשַׁךְ);

Where it is used

• Psalms 74:20 Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
• Psalms 88:6 You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
• Psalms 88:18 You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.
• Psalms 143:3 For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.
• Isaiah 29:15 Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”
• Isaiah 42:16 I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.
• Lamentations 3:6 He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.