Definition

to be dim or dark (in color)

Etymology

a primitive root (identical with H7836 (שָׁחַר) through the idea of the duskiness of early dawn);

Word family

• שָׁחַר shâchar

How the KJV renders it

• be black

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.