חֲשׁוֹךְ
chăshôwk · H2816 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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darkness
The state in which there is no light because the light of sun, moon and stars cannot reach the location in focus, so that no one can readily see and colors and shapes cannot be distinguished; loved by the wicked only and associated with hardship, ignorance, death and oblivion
ExamplesDaniel 2:22 “It is He who reveals the profound and hidden things; He knows what is in the darkness, And the light dwells with Him.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יְדַעcertify 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מָהhow great 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 5 words
- עֲרָפֶל ʻărâphel · H6205 · thick clouds, darkness
- Both words denote darkness and obscurity, as substantive nouns for darkness. עֲרָפֶל (ʻărâphel, H6205) emphasizes thickness and density ("gross, thick"), while חֲשׁוֹךְ (chăshôwk, H2816) is simply "darkness".
- מַאְפֵלְיָה maʼphêlᵉyâh · H3991 · darkness
- Both are extremely low-count hapax legomena (1 occurrence each) describing darkness.
- אֹפֶל ʼôphel · H652 · deep darkness
- Both words denote darkness and obscurity and could substitute in contexts requiring a word for darkness.
- כִּמְרִיר kimrîyr · H3650 · darkness, blackness
- Both words denote the absence or near-absence of light (darkness and blackness) and could substitute for each other in appropriate contexts.
- אָפֵל ʼâphêl · H651 · totally dark
- Both words describe darkness and dark conditions, both referring to the absence of light. אָפֵל (ʼâphêl, H651) may emphasize intensity ("very dark"), while חֲשׁוֹךְ (chăshôwk, H2816) is the nominal form ("darkness").
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Dark002001001017
- Daniel 2:22 says of God, “it is He who reveals the profound and hidden things; He knows what is in the darkness, And the light dwells with Him.”
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2816. chashok [חֲשׁוֺךְ] noun [masculine] darkness; — emphatic חֲשׁוֺכָא Dan 2:22.
[חֲשׁוֺךְ] noun [masculine] darkness; — emphatic חֲשׁוֺכָא Dan 2:22.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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