Senses
1. black, dark (color) — The adjective shachor meaning 'black' or 'dark,' used to describe hair color (Lev 13:31, 13:37, Song 5:11), horses (Zech 6:2, 6:6), and skin complexion (Song 1:5). All three sense clusters represent the same color adjective in different gender and number inflections: masculine singular and feminine plural (3x), masculine plural with and without article (2x), and feminine singular (1x). Multilingual translations uniformly confirm a single chromatic sense: Spanish 'negro/negros/morena,' Arabic 'aswad/sud/shchorah,' Hindi 'kali/kale,' Korean 'geomeun,' Swahili 'nyeusi/weusi/mweusi.' The Song of Songs 1:5 feminine singular 'dark/morena' is the same color applied to the beloved's self-description, not a distinct sense. Grammatical agreement (ms, fs, mp, fp) drives the surface variation, not semantics. 6×
AR["أَسْوَدُ","السُّودُ","سُودٌ","شْحُورَه","شْحُورُوت"]·ben["কালো"]·DE["[השחרים]","[שחורה]","[שחרות]","[שחרים]","schwarz"]·EN["black","dark","the-black"]·FR["Noire","noir","noires","sombre"]·heb["ה-שחורים","שחורה","שחורות","שחורים","שחר"]·HI["और-उगा","काली","काले","नहीं"]·ID["Hitam","hitam"]·IT["[השחרים]","[שחרים]","black","dark","nero"]·jav["Cemeng","cemeng"]·KO["검으며","검은","그-검은"]·PT["Negra","negros","os-pretos","preto","pretos"]·RU["-чёрные","Черна","чёрного","чёрные","чёрный"]·ES["Morena","los-negros","negro","negros"]·SW["mweusi","nyeusi","weusi"]·TR["kara","siyah","siyah-"]·urd["سیاہ","کالا","کالی"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† שָׁחֹר adj. black;—שׁ׳ of hair Lv 13:31, 37 (P), so fpl. שְׁחֹרוֹת Ct 5:11; of skin, fs. שְׁחוֹרָה 1:5; of horses, mpl. שְׁחֹרִים Zc 6:2, 6.