שָׁחַר shâchar — to be dim or dark (in color)
Translated in the KJV as be black.
a primitive root (identical with H7836 through the idea of the duskiness of early dawn); to be dim or dark (in color).
shâchar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Perfect (qatal) 1
שָׁחַ֣ר Job 30:30 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›