STRONGS NUMBER H7835


Word Summary
shachar: to be black
Original Word: שָׁחַר
Transliteration: shachar
Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-khar')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be black
Meaning: to be dim, dark
Strong's Concordance
be black

A primitive root (identical with shachar through the idea of the duskiness of early dawn); to be dim or dark (in color) -- be black.

see HEBREW shachar

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7835. shachar

I. שָׁחַרverb be black (Late Hebrew שָׁחוֺר‎ and derivatives, black, blackness, etc., Ecclus 25:17 Hiph`il make black; Aramaic שְׁחַר‎ (Jastrow Dalm), Aph`el grow black, so , coal; JägerBAS ii. 295 compare Assyrian šûru, coal, šurinnu, fire-pot); — ׳שׁ‎, of skin Job 30:30.