כִּמְרִיר
kimrîyr · H3650 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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darkness
Process by which the daylight makes place for darkness; associated with distress and suffering
ExamplesJob 3:5 “May darkness and black gloom claim it; May a cloud settle on it; May the blackness of the day terrify it.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יוֹםday, time 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בָּעַתto torment 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 3 words
- מַאֲפֵל maʼăphêl · H3990 · darkness
- Both words denote darkness or blackness, the absence or reduction of light.
- אֲפֵלָה ʼăphêlâh · H653 · deep darkness
- Both כִּמְרִיר (kimrîyr, H3650) and אֲפֵלָה (ʼăphêlâh, H653) denote darkness or blackness as a quality or state, and could substitute for one another in many contexts; כִּמְרִיר (kimrîyr, H3650) is attested only once.
- אָפֵל ʼâphêl · H651 · totally dark
- Both words denote darkness or blackness. Each is attested only once.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Dark002001001017
- This word's sole occurrence (Job 3:5) describes "the blackness of the day," a deep darkness, so it belongs among words for darkness.
- Intense002001003011
- This entry's own tagged occurrence does attest an intense, all-encompassing darkness, as in “May darkness and black gloom claim it; may a cloud settle on it; may the blackness of the day terrify it” (Job 3:5).
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3650. kimrir [כִּמְרִיר] noun masculine darkness, gloominess (?), plural intensive…
[כִּמְרִיר] noun masculine darkness, gloominess (?), plural intensive construct יוֺם כִּמְרִירֵי Job 3:5 the deep gloom of day (|| עֲנָנָה צלמות, חשֶׁךְ,); — read ׳כַּמ, see Di Sta§ 231.
III. כמר (√ of following; compare Assyrian kamâru, overthrow, lay prostrate, whence noun kamâru, net, snare DlHWB 336 and כֹּמֶר priest according to DlHA 42, i.e. one who prostrates himself; also Mandean כמר turn round, bring back NöM 443 f. and North Syriac pursue Nöib PS1759).
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
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