# חָשַׁךְ (chashakh)

Israeli respelling: cha-shakh. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2821. 18 Old Testament occurrences.

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

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

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chashakh-h2821

## Occurrences

- [Exodus 10:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/10/15) — For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of…
- [Job 3:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/3/9) — Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
- [Job 18:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/18/6) — The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
- [Job 38:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/38/2) — Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
- [Psalms 69:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/69/23) — Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
- [Psalms 105:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/105/28) — He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
- [Psalms 139:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/139/12) — Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
- [Ecclesiastes 12:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/12/2) — While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
- [Ecclesiastes 12:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/12/3) — In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are fe…
- [Isaiah 5:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/5/30) — 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 th…
- [Isaiah 13:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/13/10) — For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the mo…
- [Jeremiah 13:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/13/16) — Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for lig…
- [Lamentations 4:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/4/8) — Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become li…
- [Lamentations 5:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/5/17) — For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
- [Ezekiel 30:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/30/18) — At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her…
- [Amos 5:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/5/8) — Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that…
- [Amos 8:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/8/9) — And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the…
- [Micah 3:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/3/6) — Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun sh…