Quick Definition
dark hair
Strong's Definition
a dawning, i.e. (figuratively) juvenescence
Derivation: from H7836 (שָׁחַר);
KJV Usage: youth.
TWOT Reference: 2368c
Outline of Biblical Usage
1) blackness
1a) blackness (of hair indicating youth)
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
שַׁחֲרוּת (sha.cha.rut) — dark hair. 1) blackness 1a) blackness (of hair indicating youth)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun f · שׁחר
Time | Young
black hair, youth literally: black hair; hence, probably: = the time during which people's hair is still black and has not turned to grey; ≈ associated with the vigor of youth
1 ECC 11:10 NJPS NJB "black hair" | RSV NRSV ESV "dawn of life" NIV "vigor" REB "prime of life"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
שַׁחֲרוּת n.f. blackness, viz. of hair; usu. dawn of youth;—Ec 11:10 ref