Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H6757
צַלְמָ֫וֶת
tsal.ma.vet · “shadow”
Used 18 times across 5 books
Definition
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)
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)
Where it appears
Job10
Psalms4
Isaiah1
Jeremiah2
Amos1
In the text
Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.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.Job 34:22There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.Job 38:17Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?Psalms 23:4Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
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