chashach · grow dark

What it means

chashach (חָשַׁךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “grow dark”.

Darken.

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. To lose light, or take it away.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• dark ×8
• darkened ×5
• darkens ×2
• Darker ×1
• darken ×1
• he brings darkness ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×3
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×2
• Ezekiel×1
• Amos×2
• Micah×1

• Exodus 10:15

  They covered the surface of all the land, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left; and nothing green remained, neither on the trees nor in the plants of the field, in all the land of Egypt.

• Job 3:9

  Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it hope for light and there be none, and may it not see the eyelids of the dawn,

• Job 18:6

  The light grows dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is extinguished.

• Job 38:2

  “Who is this that darkens counsel with words without knowledge?

• Psalms 69:23

  Let their eyes be darkened so as not to see, and their loins make shake continually.

• Psalms 105:28

  He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they did not rebel against his word.

• Psalms 139:12

  even darkness is not dark to you, and the night shines like the day; as the darkness, so the light.

• Ecclesiastes 12:2

  before the sun is darkened, and the light, and the moon and the stars, and the clouds return after the rain;

• Ecclesiastes 12:3

  on the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the men of vigor stoop, and those who grind cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows grow dark,

• Isaiah 5:30

  And it will growl over it on that day like the growling of the sea; and one will look to the land, and look, darkness and distress, and the light is darkened by its clouds.

• Isaiah 13:10

  For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not flash forth their light; the sun will be darkened at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light.

• Jeremiah 13:16

  Give to YHWH your Elohim glory before he brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the mountains of twilight, and you wait for light, and he turns it into the shadow of death, makes it into dense cloud.

• Lamentations 4:8

  Darker than soot has their appearance become; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has dried up, it has become like wood.

• Lamentations 5:17

  For this our heart has become faint; for these things our eyes have grown dark,

• Ezekiel 30:18

  And in Tahpanhes the day will grow dark, when I break there the bars of Egypt, and the pride of her strength ceases in her; as for her, a cloud will cover her, and her daughters will go into captivity.

• Amos 5:8

  The one who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into morning, and darkens day into night; who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the face of the earth: YHWH is his name.

• Amos 8:9

  And it will happen on that day, declares Adonai YHWH, that I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight.

• Micah 3:6

  “Therefore it will be night for you, without vision, and it will be dark for you, without divination; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will grow dark over them.