Shadow
צַלְמָ֫וֶתStrong’s H6757tsalmavet (tsal-ma-vet)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsalmavet is the Hebrew word usually translated “deep darkness” and “into deep darkness”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.”
Meaning
- Death-shadow, deep shadow, deep darkness, shadow of deathdeath-shadow · death-shadow, deep shadow, darkness · death-shadow (of distress, extreme danger) (fig) · death-shadow (of place of the dead) (fig)
How it's translated
- deep darkness 10
- and deep darkness 6
- with deep darkness 1
- into deep darkness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 9
- Psalms 4
- Jeremiah 2
- Isaiah 1
- Amos 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 10:21Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
- Job 10:22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
- Job 12:22He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
- Job 16:16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
- Job 24:17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
- Job 28:3He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
Hebrew dictionary
צַלְמָ֫וֶת tsalmavet · shadow
1) death-shadow, deep shadow, deep darkness, shadow of death 1a) death-shadow 1b) death-shadow, deep shadow, darkness 1c) death-shadow (of distress, extreme danger) (fig) 1d) death-shadow (of place of the dead) (fig)
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.