Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4285
מַחְשָׁךְ
machshakmakh-shawk'
darkness
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: machshâk
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4285is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4285
darkness; concretely, a dark place
The King James renders it: dark(-ness, place).
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
machshak is rendered "darkness". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Four of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Psalms 74:20Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
Psalms 74:20מַחֲשַׁכֵּי־
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's seven uses are in Psalms.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- in dark places3
- dark place1
- dark places of1
- darkness1
- in a dark place1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַחְתָּה | machtah | censer | Uses22 |
| מַחְמָד | machmad | desire | Uses13 |
| מַחְסוֹר | machsor | need | Uses13 |
| מַחְבֶּרֶת | machbereth | joining | Uses8 |
| מַחְצֵב | machtseb | hewing | Uses3 |
| מַחְלִי | Machli | Mahlite | Uses2 |
| מַחְלָפָה | machlaphah | lock | Uses2 |
| מַחְתֶּרֶת | machtereth | breaking | Uses2 |
| מַחְלֻי | machluy | suffering | Uses1 |
| מַחְמֻד | machmud | desirable | Uses1 |
| מַחְמָל | machmal | compassion | Uses1 |
| מַחְסוֹם | machsom | muzzle | Uses1 |
and 2 more on the stem.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 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
- בְמַחְשָׁךְ֙1
- בְ֝מַחֲשַׁכִּ֗ים1
- בְּ֝מַחֲשַׁכִּ֗ים1
- בְּמַחֲשַׁכִּ֥ים1
- מַחְשָׁ֨ךְ1
- מַחְשָֽׁךְ׃1
- מַחֲשַׁכֵּי־1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · masculine plural3HR/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmpc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
Psalms
four uses
Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
- מַחֲשַׁכֵּי־machashakei-noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: dark places of
You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
- בְּ֝מַחֲשַׁכִּ֗יםbemachashakimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: in dark places
You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.
- מַחְשָֽׁךְ׃machshakhnoun · masculine singulartagged: darkness
For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.
- בְ֝מַחֲשַׁכִּ֗יםvemachashakimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: in dark places
Isaiah
two uses
Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”
- בְמַחְשָׁךְ֙vemachshokhpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in a dark place
I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.
- מַחְשָׁ֨ךְmachshakhnoun · masculine singulartagged: dark place
Lamentations
one use
He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
- בְּמַחֲשַׁכִּ֥יםbemachashakimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: in dark places
The letters
Gematria 368· 848 mispar gadol
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.