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Lamentations 3:6
“He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
מַחְשָׁךְmachshâk · makh-shawk'
H4285 · Hebrew
H4285 · Hebrew
- Definition
- darkness; concretely, a dark place
- Derivation
- from H2821 (חָשַׁךְ);
- KJV renderings
- dark(-ness, place).
- Grammar
- בְּ — preposition
- מַחֲשַׁכִּ֥ים — common noun, masculine, plural, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 7 times in the Hebrew Bible.Psalms 74:20Psalms 88:7Psalms 88:19Psalms 143:3Isaiah 29:15
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מַחְשָׁךְ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.