# שָׁחֹר (shachor)

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

Strong’s H7838. 6 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, dusky, but also (absol.) jetty

King James renderings: black.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/shachor-h7838

## Occurrences

- [Leviticus 13:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/31) — And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and that there is no black hair in…
- [Leviticus 13:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/37) — But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest…
- [Song of Solomon 1:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/1/5) — I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
- [Song of Solomon 5:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/5/11) — His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.
- [Zechariah 6:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/6/2) — In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
- [Zechariah 6:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/6/6) — The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the…