Biblical Hebrew

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Strong Hebrew #3650 - כִּמְרִיר kimrir (darkness)


Original Word:כִּמְרִיר
Transliteration:kimrir
Definition:darkness, gloominess
Part of Speech:Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:(kim-reer')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

blackness

Redupl. From kamar; obscuration (as if from shrinkage of light, i.e. An eclipse (only in plural) -- blackness.

see HEBREW kamar


Englishman's Concordance

1) blackness, gloominess, darkness
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: reduplication from H3648
Same Word by TWOT Number: 994a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[כִּמְרִיר] noun masculinedarkness, gloominess (?), plural intensive construct כִּמְרִירֵי יוֺםJob 3:5the deep gloom of day ("" חשֶׁךְ, צלמות, עֲנָנָה); — read ׳כַּמ, see Di Sta§ 231.

III. כמר (√ of following; compare Assyrian kamâru, overthrow, lay prostrate, whence noun kamâru, net, snare DlHWB 336 andכֹּמֶרpriest according to DlHA 42, i.e. one who prostrates himself; also Mandean כמרturn round, bring backM 443 f. and North Syriac pursueib PS1759).


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 3650. כִּמְרִירֵי (kimrir) — 1 Occurrence

Job 3:5
HEB:עֲנָנָ֑ה יְ֝בַעֲתֻ֗הוּ כִּֽמְרִ֥ירֵי יֽוֹם׃
NAS: settle on it; Let the blackness of the day
KJV: dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day
INT: A cloud terrify the blackness of the day