חֹשֶׁךְchôshek/kho-shek'/
HebrewH282280 occurrences (KJV)
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
KJV renders it: dark(-ness), night, obscurity.
Where it appears(showing the first 77 of 80)
- Gen 1:2The 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.
- Gen 1:4God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
- Gen 1:5God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.
- Gen 1:18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
- Exod 10:21Yahweh 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.”
- Exod 10:22Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.
- Exod 14:20It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and one didn’t come near the other all night.
- Deut 4:11You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
- Deut 5:23When 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;
- Josh 2:5About 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.”
- 1 Sam 2:9He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.
- 2 Sam 22:12He made darkness a shelter around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
- 2 Sam 22:29For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness.
- Job 3:4Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
- Job 3:5Let 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.
- Job 5:14They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
- Job 10:21before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
- Job 12:22He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
- Job 12:25They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
- Job 15:22He doesn’t believe that he shall return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
- Job 15:23He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
- Job 15:30He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God’s mouth shall he go away.
- Job 17:12They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.
- Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
- Job 18:18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
- Job 19:8He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
- Job 20:26All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.
- Job 22:11or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.
- Job 23:17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
- Job 24:16In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.
- Job 26:10He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.
- Job 28:3Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
- Job 29:3when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
- Job 34:22There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
- Job 37:19Teach us what we shall tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.
- Job 38:19“What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,
- Ps 18:11He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
- Ps 18:28For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.
- Ps 35:6Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh’s angel pursuing them.
- Ps 88:12Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
- Ps 104:20You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.
- Ps 105:28He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.
- Ps 107:10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
- Ps 107:14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.
- Ps 112:4Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.
- Ps 139:11If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night”;
- Ps 139:12even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
- Prov 2:13who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
- Prov 20:20Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
- Eccl 2:13Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.
- Eccl 2:14The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness — and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.
- Eccl 5:17All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.
- Eccl 6:4for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
- Eccl 11:8Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
- Isa 5:20Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
- Isa 5:30They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.
- Isa 9:2The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.
- Isa 29:18In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
- Isa 42:7to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
- Isa 45:3I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name, even the God of Israel.
- Isa 45:7I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
- Isa 45:19I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
- Isa 47:5“Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no longer be called the mistress of kingdoms.
- Isa 49:9saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.
- Isa 58:10and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;
- Isa 59:9Therefore is justice far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
- Isa 60:2For, behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.
- Lam 3:2He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
- Ezek 8:12Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘Yahweh doesn’t see us. Yahweh has forsaken the land.’”
- Ezek 32:8I will make all the bright lights of the sky dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Joel 2:2A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
- Joel 2:31The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
- Amos 5:18“Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.
- Amos 5:20Won’t the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
- Mic 7:8Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.
- Nah 1:8But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
- Zeph 1:15That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.