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title: כִּמְרִיר — darkness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כִּמְרִיר (3650), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: darkness. BDB 1906: n.m. darkness, gloominess. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כִּמְרִיר

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«כִּמְרִיר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **darkness** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3650 · **BDB:** כִּמְרִיר

### Glosses

\[the\].darkness(es) (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

darkness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3650/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. darkness, gloominess [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3650/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. darkness, gloominess(?) pl. intens. cstr. כִּמְרִירֵי יוֹם Jb 3:5 the deep gloom of day (‖ חֹשֶׁךְ, צלמות, עֲנָנָה);—read כַּמ׳, v. Di Sta§ 231.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כִּמְרִיר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3650/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 3:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.5/)

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יִגְאָלֻ֡הוּ חֹ֣שֶׁךְ וְ֭צַלְמָוֶת תִּשְׁכָּן־עָלָ֣יו עֲנָנָ֑ה יְ֝בַעֲתֻ֗הוּ כִּֽמְרִ֥ירֵי יֽוֹם׃

*Word for word:* let them.reclaim.it darkness and deep.darkness let.it.settle.down over it cloud let them.terrify.it \[the\].darkness(es) of.day

*JPS 1917:* Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; let a cloud dwell upon it; let all that maketh black the day terrify it.

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