Lexical Definition

‎שָׁחַר‎ shâchar (shaw-khar') be black ^H:V
a primitive root (identical with ‎שָׁחַר‎ through the idea of the duskiness of early dawn)

be black.

• to be dim or dark (in color)

1) to be black
1a) (Qal) to be black (of skin)

See Greek: σκοτόω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎שָׁחַר‎ verb be black (Late Hebrew ‎שָׁחוֺר‎ and derivatives, black, blackness, etc., Eccl 25:17 Hiph`il make black; Aramaic ‎שְׁחַר‎ (Jastrow Dalm), Aph`el grow black, so , coal; Jäger^{BAS ii. 295} compare Assyrian šûru, coal, šurinnu, fire-pot); — ‎׳‎‎שׁ‎, of skin Job 30:30.

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