Hebrew adjective · H7838
שָׁחֹר
shachorshaw-khore'
black
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shâchôr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7838is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7838
properly, dusky, but also (absol.) jetty
The King James renders it: black.
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
shachor is rendered "black". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 13:31But if the priest examines the scaly infection and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
But if the priest examines the scaly infection and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days.
Leviticus 13:31שָׁחֹ֖ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's six uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- black5
- the black1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| שָׁחָה | shachah | to bow | Uses172 |
| שָׁחַת | shachath | to ruin | Uses146 |
| שָׁחַט | shachat | to slaughter | Uses81 |
| שָׁחַח | shachach | to bow | Uses21 |
| שָׁחַר | shachar | to seek | Uses12 |
| שָׁחַט | shachat | beaten | Uses5 |
| שָׁחַק | shachaq | to beat | Uses4 |
| שָׁחַד | shachad | to bribe | Uses2 |
| שָׁחִיס | shachis | offspring | Uses2 |
| שָׁחַר | shachar | be black | Uses1 |
| שָׁחִיף | shachiph | paneled | Uses1 |
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- הַשְּׁחֹרִ֗ים1
- שְׁחוֹרָ֤ה1
- שָׁחֹ֖ר1
- שָׁחֹ֧ר1
- שְׁחֹר֖וֹת1
- שְׁחֹרִֽים׃1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular2HAamsa
- adjective · feminine plural1HAafpa
- adjective · feminine singular1HAafsa
- adjective · masculine plural1HAampa
- the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine plural1HTd/Aampa
Leviticus
two uses
But if the priest examines the scaly infection and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days.
- שָׁחֹ֖רshachoradjective · masculine singulartagged: black
If, however, in his sight the scaly outbreak is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, then it has healed. He is clean, and the priest is to pronounce him clean.
- שָׁחֹ֧רshachoradjective · masculine singulartagged: black
Song of Solomon
two uses
I am dark, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.
- שְׁחוֹרָ֤הshechorahadjective · feminine singulartagged: black
His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.
- שְׁחֹר֖וֹתshechorotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: black
Zechariah
two uses
The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses,
- שְׁחֹרִֽים׃shechorimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: black
The one with the black horses is going toward the land of the north, the one with the white horses toward the west, and the one with the dappled horses toward the south.”
- הַשְּׁחֹרִ֗יםhashechorimthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: the black
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.