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שְׁחוֹר

she.chor

blackness

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Strong’s H7815Noun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

soot1

In the text

Lamentations 4:8מִשְּׁחוֹר
But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

שְׁחוֹר n.[m.] blackness;—La 4:8.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.