Hebrew noun (feminine) · H2825
חֲשֵׁכָה
chashekahkhash-ay-kaw'
darkness
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chăshêkâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2825is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2825
darkness; figuratively, misery
The King James renders it: darkness.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chashekah is rendered "darkness". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 15:12As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.
Genesis 15:12חֲשֵׁכָ֥ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and darkness1
- as the darkness1
- darkness1
- darknesses1
- in darkness1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בַּחֲשֵׁכָ֥ה1
- וַחֲשֵׁכָה֙1
- חֲשֵׁכָ֥ה1
- חֲשֵׁכִ֗ים1
- כַּ֝חֲשֵׁיכָ֗ה1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular1HR/Ncfsa
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HRd/Ncfsa
Genesis
one use
As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.
- חֲשֵׁכָ֥הchashekhahnoun · feminine singulartagged: darkness
Psalms
two uses
They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
- בַּחֲשֵׁכָ֥הbachashekhahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: in darkness
even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
- כַּ֝חֲשֵׁיכָ֗הkachasheikhahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: as the darkness
Isaiah
two uses
Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.
- וַחֲשֵׁכָה֙vachashekhahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and darkness
Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of His Servant? Who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD; let him lean on his God.
- חֲשֵׁכִ֗יםchashekhimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: darknesses
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.