מַחְשָׁךְ
machshach · dark place
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4285 · appears 7 times in the Bible
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machshach (מַחְשָׁךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dark place”.
Darkness, a hiding place in the dark.
How to say it
mach·shach
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
- A place without light; what is done in hiding.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- dark places ×5
- dark ×2
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Psalms 74:20
Look to the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of abodes of violence.
- Psalms 88:6
You have put me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the depths.
- Psalms 88:18
You have put far from me friend and companion; my acquaintances are the dark place.
- Psalms 143:3
For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed to the ground my life; he has made me dwell in dark places like those dead long ago.
- Isaiah 29:15
Woe to those who go deep to hide their plan from YHWH, and their works are in the dark, and they say, “Who sees us? And who knows us?”
- Isaiah 42:16
And I will lead the blind by a way that they have not known; in paths that they have not known I will make them tread; I will make the dark places before them into light, and the crooked places into a plain. These things I will do, and I will not abandon them.
- Lamentations 3:6
In dark places he has made me dwell, like those dead long ago.