tsel (shadow) · Rightly

Meaning

Shadow, shadeshadow (on dial) · shadow, shade (as protection) · shadow (symbolic of transitoriness of life)

How it's translated

in shadow of 9
like shadow 5
the shadow 3
like a shadow 3
a shade 3
shadow of 2
shade 2
and in shadow of 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Isaiah 11
Psalms 10
Job 4
Ezekiel 4
2 Kings 3
Ecclesiastes 3

15 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Numbers 14:9Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
Judges 9:15And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Judges 9:36And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains. And Zebul said unto him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.
2 Kings 20:9And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
2 Kings 20:10And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
2 Kings 20:11And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.

All 47 verses, by book

Genesis 1: 19:8
Numbers 1: 14:9
Judges 2: 9:15 9:36
2 Kings 3: 20:9 20:10 20:11
1 Chronicles 1: 29:15
Job 4: 7:2 8:9 14:2 17:7
Psalms 10: 17:8 36:7 57:1 63:7 80:10 91:1 102:11 109:23 121:5 144:4
Ecclesiastes 3: 6:12 7:12 8:13
Song of Solomon 1: 2:3
Isaiah 11: 4:6 16:3 25:4 25:5 30:2 30:3 32:2 34:15 38:8 49:2 51:16
Jeremiah 1: 48:45
Lamentations 1: 4:20
Ezekiel 4: 17:23 31:6 31:12 31:17
Hosea 2: 4:13 14:7
Jonah 2: 4:5 4:6

Hebrew dictionary

צֵל tsel · shadow

1) shadow, shade 1a) shadow (on dial) 1b) shadow, shade (as protection) 1c) shadow (symbolic of transitoriness of life) Also means: tse.lel (צֵלֶל "shadow" H6752)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “shadow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

SHAD'OW, noun

Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a plane and represtnting the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as the shadow of a man, of a tree or a tower.
Darkness; shade; obscurity.
Shelter made by any thing that intercepts the light, heat or influence of the air.
Obscure place; secluded retreat.

All definitions and other forms of “shadow”

Dark part of a picture.
A spirit; a ghost.
In painting, the representation of a real shadow
An imperfect and faint representation; opposed to substance.“The law of having a shadow of good things to come” Hebrews 10:1
Inseparable companion.
Type; mystical representaion.
Protection; shelter; favor.
Slight or faint appearance.

SHAD'OW, verb transitive

To overspread with obscurity.
To cloud; to darken.
To make cool; to refresh by shade; or to shade.
To conceal; to hide; to screen.
To protect; to screen from danger; to shroud.
To mark with slight gradations of color or light. [In this sense, shade is chiefly used.]
to paint in obscure colors; as void spaces deeply shadowed.
To represent faintly or imperfectly.
To represent typically.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.