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שַׁחֲרוּת

sha.cha.rut

dark hair

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Strong’s H7839Noun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

black hair1

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Ecclesiastes 11:10וְהַשַּׁחֲרוּת
So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

שַׁחֲרוּת n.f. blackness, viz. of hair; usu. dawn of youth;—Ec 11:10

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.