Gematria of Black
7 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “black” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 52 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 7
- Occurrences
- 52
- Distinct values
- 6
The 7 Hebrew words rendered “black”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
properly, dusky, but also (absol.) jetty
First appearance ·Leviticus 13:31ויקרא יג:לאשָׁחֹר
the little man of the eye; the pupil or ball; hence, the middle (of night)
First appearance ·Deuteronomy 32:10דברים לב:יכְּאִישׁוֹן
swarthy
First appearance ·Song of Songs 1:6שיר השירים א:ושְׁחַרְחֹרֶת
to be dark (as withholding light); transitively, to darken
First appearance ·Exodus 10:15שמות י:טווַתֶּחְשַׁךְ
to be ashy, i.e. darkcolored; by implication, to mourn (in sackcloth or sordid garments)
First appearance ·1 Kings 18:45מלכים א יח:מההִֽתְקַדְּרוּ
properly, to intertwine or contract, i.e. (by implication) to shrivel (as with heat); figuratively, to be deeply affected with passion (love or pity)
First appearance ·Genesis 43:30בראשית מג:לנִכְמְרוּ
to be dim or dark (in color)
First appearance ·Job 30:30איוב ל:לשָׁחַר
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of black?
The Tanakh renders “black” with 7 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: חשך = 328, קדר = 304, שחר = 508, and 3 more.
How do you say black in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 7 Hebrew words for “black”; the most frequent are חשך (châshak), 18 times; קדר (qâdar), 17 times; שחר (shâchôr), 7 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.