Genesis 15:12:9Gen.15.12.W9TAB
חֲשֵׁכָ֥ה
khashekha
“darkness”
- Transliteration
- kha-she-KHA
- Extended
- khah-sheh-KHAA
- IPA
- /ħă.ʃeː.ˈxaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- darkness
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
kha-she-KHA
- phraseyour reading level
kha-she-KHA ge-do-LA
- clause
ve-hin-NE ei-MA kha-she-KHA ge-do-LA no-FE-let a-LAV
- sentence
va-ye-HI ha-SHE-mesh la-VO ve-tar-de-MA naf-LA al-av-RAM ve-hin-NE ei-MA kha-she-KHA ge-do-LA no-FE-let a-LAV
Exegesis
The sequence eimah chashekah gedolah {אֵימָה חֲשֵׁכָה גְדֹלָה | ʾēmāh ḥăšēḵāh gəḏōlāh} ‘terror, great darkness’ consists of appositional nouns with a modifying adjective, layering emotional (terror) and sensory (great darkness) elements to intensify the atmosphere.
Root and etymology
ḥ-š-k
“darkness, obscurity”
In context — Genesis 15:12
And it came to pass, as the sun was going down, that a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, a terror —a great darkness—was falling upon him.
About this coordinate
Genesis 15:12:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Genesis 15:12, so the Hebrew word חֲשֵׁכָ֥ה (khashekha) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Gen.15.12.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.15.12.W9.S1) and character.