# מַחְשָׁךְ (machshakhe)

Israeli respelling: mach-sha-khe. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4285. 7 Old Testament occurrences.

darkness; concretely, a dark place

King James renderings: dark(-ness, place).

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/machshakhe-h4285

## Occurrences

- [Psalms 74:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/74/20) — Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
- [Psalms 88:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/88/6) — Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
- [Psalms 88:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/88/18) — Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
- [Psalms 143:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/143/3) — 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…
- [Isaiah 29:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/29/15) — 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 know…
- [Isaiah 42:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/42/16) — 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 befo…
- [Lamentations 3:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/6) — He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.