shachor · black

What it means

shachor (שָׁחֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “black”.

Dark.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Of the darkest color, like that of hair, skin or horses.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

• Leviticus×2
• Song of Songs×2
• Zechariah×2

• Leviticus 13:31

  But if the priest examines the sore of ringworm and, look, its appearance is not deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, the priest shall isolate the one with the sore of ringworm seven days.

• Leviticus 13:37

  But if in his eyes the ringworm has stayed as it was and black hair has grown in it, the ringworm has healed; he is clean, and the priest shall declare him clean.

• Song of Songs 1:5

  Black I am yet lovely, daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

• Song of Songs 5:11

  His head is fine gold, pure gold; his curls are palm clusters, black as the raven.

• Zechariah 6:2

  With the first chariot, red horses; and with the second chariot, black horses;

• Zechariah 6:6

  The one in which are the black horses: they are going out to the land of the north, and the white have gone out after them, and the dappled have gone out to the land of the south.”