Shadow
צֵלֶלStrong’s H6752tselel (tse-lel)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tselel is the Hebrew word usually translated “shadows”, “shade its” and “shadows of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.”
Meaning
- Shadow, shadeshadow (on dial) · shadow, shade (as protection) · shadow (symbolic of transitoriness of life)
How it's translated
- the shadows 2
- shade its 1
- shadows of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 2
- Job 1
- Jeremiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Song of Solomon 2:17Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
- Song of Solomon 4:6Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
- Jeremiah 6:4Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
Hebrew dictionary
צֵלֶל tselel · shadow
1) shadow, shade 1a) shadow (on dial) 1b) shadow, shade (as protection) 1c) shadow (symbolic of transitoriness of life)
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.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.