Chashak means “darken” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2821 — klesis (“calling”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2821 חָשַׁך (chashak) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. chashak (khaw-shak') v. 1. to be dark (as withholding light) 2. transitively, to darken It has 18 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include dark, darkened, light, darkeneth, and dim. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
chashak (khaw-shak') v. 1. to be dark (as withholding light) 2. transitively, to darken [a primitive root] KJV: be black, be (make) dark, darken, cause darkness, be dim, hide.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2821. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to darken
Usage: 1) to be or become dark, grow dim, be darkened, be black, be hidden 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be or grow dark 1a2) to have a dark colour 1a3) to grow dim 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to make dark, cause to be dark 1b2) to hide, conceal 1b3) to obscure, confuse (fig.)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chashak, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
18 indexed usages in Old Testament.
For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2821.
For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2821, grouped by book.
Chashak (Strong's H2821) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "darken". chashak (khaw-shak') v. 1. to be dark (as withholding light) 2. transitively, to darken
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's H2821 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2821 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as dark, darkened, light, darkeneth, dim, and darken. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.