Hebrew word · H2822
חֹ֫שֶׁךְ
choshekh
darkness
Appears 80 times in 77 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.
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Where it appears
Genesis · 4
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Genesis 1:2 וְחֹ֖שֶׁךְ and darkness
Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
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Genesis 1:4 הַחֹֽשֶׁךְ׃ the darkness
And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.
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Genesis 1:5 וְלַחֹ֖שֶׁךְ and <to> the darkness
God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
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Genesis 1:18 הַחֹ֑שֶׁךְ the darkness
to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
Exodus · 4
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Exodus 10:21 חֹ֖שֶׁךְ חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃ darkness
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.”
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Exodus 10:22 חֹֽשֶׁךְ־ darkness of
So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and total darkness covered all the land of Egypt for three days.
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Exodus 14:20 וְהַחֹ֔שֶׁךְ and the darkness
so that it came between the camps of Egypt and Israel. The cloud was there in the darkness, but it lit up the night. So all night long neither camp went near the other.
Deuteronomy · 2
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Deuteronomy 4:11 חֹ֖שֶׁךְ darkness
You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.
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Deuteronomy 5:23 הַחֹ֔שֶׁךְ the darkness
And when you heard the voice out of the darkness while the mountain was blazing with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me,
Joshua · 1
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Joshua 2:5 בַּחֹ֙שֶׁךְ֙ at <the> darkness
At dusk, when the gate was about to close, the men went out, and I do not know which way they went. Pursue them quickly, and you may catch them!”
1 Samuel · 1
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1 Samuel 2:9 בַּחֹ֣שֶׁךְ in the darkness
He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
2 Samuel · 2
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2 Samuel 22:12 חֹ֛שֶׁךְ darkness
He made darkness a canopy around Him, a gathering of water and thick clouds.
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2 Samuel 22:29 חָשְׁכִּֽי׃ darkness my
For You, O LORD, are my lamp; the LORD lights up my darkness.
Job · 23
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Job 3:4 חֹ֥שֶׁךְ darkness
If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.
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Job 3:5 חֹ֣שֶׁךְ darkness
May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
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Job 5:14 חֹ֑שֶׁךְ darkness
They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
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Job 10:21 חֹ֣שֶׁךְ darkness
before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,
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Job 12:22 חֹ֑שֶׁךְ darkness
He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into light.
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Job 12:25 חֹ֥שֶׁךְ darkness
They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.
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Job 15:22 חֹ֑שֶׁךְ darkness
He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.
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Job 15:23 חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃ darkness
He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
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Job 15:30 חֹ֗שֶׁךְ darkness
He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
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Job 17:12 חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃ darkness
They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
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Job 17:13 בַּ֝חֹ֗שֶׁךְ in the darkness
If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
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Job 18:18 חֹ֑שֶׁךְ darkness
He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
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Job 19:8 חֹ֣שֶׁךְ darkness
He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
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Job 20:26 חֹשֶׁךְ֮ darkness
Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
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Job 22:11 חֹ֥שֶׁךְ darkness
it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
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Job 23:17 חֹ֑שֶׁךְ darkness
Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.
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Job 24:16 בַּחֹ֗שֶׁךְ in <the> darkness
In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.
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Job 26:10 חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃ darkness
He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
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Job 28:3 לַחֹ֗שֶׁךְ to the darkness
Man puts an end to the darkness; he probes the farthest recesses for ore in deepest darkness.
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Job 29:3 חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃ darkness
when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,
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Job 34:22 חֹ֭שֶׁךְ [is] darkness
There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.
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Job 37:19 חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃ darkness
Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.
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Job 38:19 וְ֝חֹ֗שֶׁךְ and darkness
Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,
Psalms · 11
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Psalm 18:11 חֹ֨שֶׁךְ׀ darkness
He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.
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Psalm 18:28 חָשְׁכִּֽי׃ darkness my
For You, O LORD, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.
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Psalm 35:6 חֹ֥שֶׁךְ darkness
May their path be dark and slick, as the angel of the LORD pursues.
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Psalm 88:12 בַּחֹ֣שֶׁךְ in the darkness
Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
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Psalm 104:20 חֹ֭שֶׁךְ darkness
You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.
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Psalm 105:28 חֹ֭שֶׁךְ darkness
He sent darkness, and it became dark—yet they defied His words.
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Psalm 107:10 חֹ֣שֶׁךְ darkness
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,
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Psalm 107:14 מֵחֹ֣שֶׁךְ from darkness
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.
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Psalm 112:4 בַּחֹ֣שֶׁךְ in the darkness
Light dawns in the darkness for the upright—for the gracious, compassionate, and righteous.
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Psalm 139:11 חֹ֣שֶׁךְ darkness
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—
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Psalm 139:12 חֹשֶׁךְ֮ darkness
even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
Proverbs · 2
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Proverbs 2:13 חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃ darkness
from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,
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Proverbs 20:20 חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃ darkness
Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
Ecclesiastes · 6
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Ecclesiastes 2:13 הַחֹֽשֶׁךְ׃ <the> darkness
And I saw that wisdom exceeds folly, just as light exceeds darkness:
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Ecclesiastes 2:14 בַּחֹ֣שֶׁךְ in <the> darkness
The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both.
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Ecclesiastes 5:17 בַּחֹ֣שֶׁךְ in <the> darkness
Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger.
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Ecclesiastes 6:4 וּבַחֹ֣שֶׁךְ וּבַחֹ֖שֶׁךְ and in <the> darkness
For a stillborn child enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity.
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Ecclesiastes 11:8 הַחֹ֔שֶׁךְ <the> darkness
So if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is futile.
Isaiah · 14
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Isaiah 5:20 חֹ֤שֶׁךְ לְחֹ֔שֶׁךְ darkness, into darkness
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.
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Isaiah 5:30 חֹ֔שֶׁךְ darkness
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.
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Isaiah 9:2 בַּחֹ֔שֶׁךְ in the darkness
The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.
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Isaiah 29:18 וּמֵחֹ֔שֶׁךְ and from darkness
On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
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Isaiah 42:7 חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃ darkness
to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.
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Isaiah 45:3 חֹ֔שֶׁךְ darkness
I will give you the treasures of darkness and the riches hidden in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who calls you by name.
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Isaiah 45:7 חֹ֔שֶׁךְ darkness
I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
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Isaiah 45:19 חֹ֔שֶׁךְ darkness
I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.
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Isaiah 47:5 בַחֹ֖שֶׁךְ in <the> darkness
“Sit in silence and go into darkness, O Daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called the queen of kingdoms.
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Isaiah 49:9 בַּחֹ֖שֶׁךְ [are] in <the> darkness
to say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ They will feed along the pathways, and find pasture on every barren hill.
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Isaiah 58:10 בַּחֹ֙שֶׁךְ֙ in the darkness
and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.
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Isaiah 59:9 חֹ֔שֶׁךְ darkness
Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
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Isaiah 60:2 הַחֹ֙שֶׁךְ֙ <the> darkness
For behold, darkness covers the earth, and thick darkness is over the peoples; but the LORD will rise upon you, and His glory will appear over you.
Lamentations · 1
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Lamentations 3:2 חֹ֥שֶׁךְ darkness
He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
Ezekiel · 2
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Ezekiel 8:12 בַּחֹ֔שֶׁךְ in the darkness
“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”
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Ezekiel 32:8 חֹ֙שֶׁךְ֙ darkness
All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you, and I will bring darkness upon your land,’ declares the Lord GOD.
Joel · 2
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Joel 2:2 חֹ֣שֶׁךְ darkness
a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.
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Joel 2:31 לְחֹ֔שֶׁךְ into darkness
The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.
Amos · 2
Micah · 1
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Micah 7:8 בַּחֹ֔שֶׁךְ in <the> darkness
Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
Nahum · 1
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Nahum 1:8 חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃ darkness
But with an overwhelming flood He will make an end of Nineveh and pursue His enemies into darkness.
Zephaniah · 1
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Zephaniah 1:15 חֹ֙שֶׁךְ֙ darkness
That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
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