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title: שְׁחוֹר — blackness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שְׁחוֹר (7815), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: blackness. BDB 1906: blackness. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שְׁחוֹר

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«שְׁחוֹר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **blackness** — 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:** 7815 · **BDB:** שְׁחוֹר²

### Glosses

than.soot (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

blackness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7815/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

blackness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7815/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] blackness;—חָשַׁךְ מִשּׁ׳ תָּאֳרָם La 4:8.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שְׁחוֹר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7815/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Lamentations 4:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.4.8/)

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חָשַׁ֤ךְ מִשְּׁחוֹר֙ תָּֽאֳרָ֔ם לֹ֥א נִכְּר֖וּ בַּחוּצ֑וֹת צָפַ֤ד עוֹרָם֙ עַל־עַצְמָ֔ם יָבֵ֖שׁ הָיָ֥ה כָעֵֽץ׃ס

*Word for word:* it.is.dark more than.soot appearance their not they.are.recognized in the streets it.has.shriveled skin their on bone their dry it.has.become like (the) wood

*JPS 1917:* Their visage is blacker than coal; they are not known in the streets; their skin is shrivelled upon their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

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