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title: קַדְרוּת — darkness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קַדְרוּת (6940), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: darkness. BDB 1906: n.f. darkness, gloom. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קַדְרוּת

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«קַדְרוּת» 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:** 6940 · **BDB:** קַדְרוּת

### Glosses

darkness (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

darkness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6940/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. darkness, gloom [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6940/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. darkness, gloom;—אַלְבִּישׁ שָׁמַיִם ק׳ Is 50:3 (cf. √, Je 4:28; 1 K 18:45; ‖ שַׂק).

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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 «קַדְרוּת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6940/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 50:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.50.3/)

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אַלְבִּ֥ישׁ שָׁמַ֖יִם קַדְר֑וּת וְשַׂ֖ק אָשִׂ֥ים כְּסוּתָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* I.clothe \[the\].heavens darkness and sackcloth I.make covering their

*JPS 1917:* I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

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