Exodus 10:21:12Exod.10.21.W12PAT
חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃
khoshekh
“darkness”
- Transliteration
- KHO-shekh
- Extended
- KHOH-shehkh
- IPA
- /ˈħoː.ʃɛx/
Meaning by language
- English
- darkness
- French
- obscurité
- Spanish
- oscuridad
- Portuguese
- escuridão
- German
- Finsternis
- Russian
- тьма
- Arabic-Simplified
- ظَلَام
- Hindi
- अंधकार
- Chinese-Simplified
- 黑暗
- Korean
- 어둠
- Indonesian
- kegelapan
- Bengali
- অন্ধকার
- Tagalog
- kadiliman
- Swahili
- giza
- Amharic
- ጨለማ
- Yoruba
- okunkun
- Igbo
- ọchịchịrị
- Twi
- sum
- Ewe
- viviti
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable |
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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
KHO-shekh
- clause
ve-ya-MESH KHO-shekh
- sentence
va-YO-mer Ye-ho-VAH el-MO-sheh ne-TEH YAD-kha al-ha-sha-MA-yim vi-HI KHO-shekh al-E-rets mits-RA-yim ve-ya-MESH KHO-shekh
In context — Exodus 10:21
and he said LORD to Moses stretch out your hand toward the heavens and let there be darkness over the land Egypt and one may feel darkness
About this coordinate
Exodus 10:21:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Exodus 10:21, so the Hebrew word חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃ (khoshekh) 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 Exod.10.21.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.10.21.W12.S1) and character.