חֹ֫שֶׁךְ
cho.shekh (H2822)
darkness
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The Hebrew word "cho.shekh" (חֹ֫שֶׁךְ) has a specific and singular meaning: darkness. This word is the most frequently used term for darkness in the Hebrew Bible, appearing 80 times. The meaning of this word goes beyond a mere absence of light, but refers to an actual, palpable presence that can be felt or experienced. In its occurrences, "cho.shekh" often describes physical environments, such as the night sky (Gen 1:2, 5) or a cave (Jdg 16:14). It can also symbolize fear (Deut 28:29) and uncertainty (Isa 50:10). In various passages, "cho.shekh" represents a condition of separation from God or divine truth (Ex 10:21, Ps 104:20), emphasizing the word's role in conveying a sense of separation or disconnection. The widespread use of "cho.shekh" indicates its importance in Hebrew thought, highlighting the concept of darkness as an integral aspect of human experience. The word's recurrence also suggests its capacity to evoke a range of emotions and ideas, serving as a powerful metaphor for both tangible and spiritual states.
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The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.
and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.”
Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.
It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night. One didn’t come near the other all night.
You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
When you heard the voice out of the middle of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
About the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, the men went out. Where the men went, I don’t know. Pursue them quickly. You may catch up with them.”
He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.
He made darkness a shelter around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.
They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire will devour him. It will consume that which is left in his tent.
or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.
He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.
Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Teach us what we will tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.
“What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,
He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.
Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh’s angel pursuing them.
Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.
He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.
Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”
even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,
Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.
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