H4285: מַחְשָׁךְ
machshâk · pronounced makh-shawk' · “darkness”
Definition
darkness; concretely, a dark place
KJV translates it as: dark(-ness, place).
Word origin: from H2821 (חָשַׁךְ);
Extended definition
1a) hiding-place
1b) dark region
1c) grave
Aramaic equivalent: cha.shokh (חֲשׁוֹךְ "darkness" H2816)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H4285 is translated
- dark places ×2
- the dark places of ×1
- the dark places ×1
- darkness ×1
- a dark place ×1
- the dark place ×1
Bible verses with H4285 (machshâk)
Machshâk appears in 7 verses.
- Psalms 74:20
Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
- Psalms 88:6
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
- Psalms 88:18
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
- Psalms 143:3
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
- Isaiah 29:15
Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
- Isaiah 42:16
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
- Lamentations 3:6
He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.