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Shadow

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Greek G4639 skiá

Original: σκιά

Meaning:
apparently a primary word; "shade" or a shadow (literally or figuratively (darkness of error or an adumbration)):-- shadow.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: "shade" or a shadow (literally or figuratively (darkness of error or an adumbration)):-- shadow.

Hebrew H2927 ṭᵉlal

Original: טְלַל

Meaning:
(Aramaic) corresponding to טָלַל; to cover with shade; have a shadow.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: have a shadow.

Hebrew H6752 tsêlel

Original: צֵלֶל

Meaning:
from צָלַל; shade; shadow.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: shadow.

Hebrew H6757 tsalmâveth

Original: צַלְמָוֶת

Meaning:
from צֵל and מָוֶת; shade of death, i.e. the grave (figuratively, calamity); shadow of death.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: shadow of death.

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^{Genesis 19:8} Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. Open

^{Judges 9:15} And 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. Open

^{Judges 9:36} And 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. Open

^{2 Kings 20:9} And 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? Open

^{2 Kings 20:10} And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. Open

^{2 Kings 20:11} And 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. Open

^{1 Chronicles 29:15} For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. Open

^{Job 3:5} Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. Open

^{Job 7:2} As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: Open

^{Job 8:9} (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) Open

^{Job 10:21} Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; Open

^{Job 10:22} A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness. Open

^{Job 12:22} He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death. Open

^{Job 14:2} He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. Open

^{Job 16:16} My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; Open

^{Job 17:7} Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. Open

^{Job 24:17} For 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. Open

^{Job 28:3} He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death. Open

^{Job 34:22} There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. Open

^{Job 38:17} Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? Open

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^{Job 40:22} The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. Open

^{Psalm 17:8} Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings, Open

^{Psalm 36:7} How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. Open

^{Psalm 44:19} Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. Open

^{Psalm 57:1} Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast. Open

^{Psalm 63:7} Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. Open

^{Psalm 80:10} The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. Open

^{Psalm 91:1} He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Open

^{Psalm 102:11} My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass. Open

^{Psalm 107:10} Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron; Open

^{Psalm 107:14} He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. Open

^{Psalm 109:23} I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. Open

^{Psalm 144:4} Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. Open

^{Ecclesiastes 6:12} For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? Open

^{Ecclesiastes 8:13} But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God. Open

^{Song of Solomon 2:3} As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. Open

^{Isaiah 4:6} And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain. Open

^{Isaiah 9:2} The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. Open

^{Isaiah 16:3} Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. Open

^{Isaiah 25:4} For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. Open

^{Isaiah 25:5} Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. Open

^{Isaiah 30:2} That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! Open

^{Isaiah 30:3} Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. Open

^{Isaiah 32:2} And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. Open

^{Isaiah 34:15} There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate. Open

^{Isaiah 38:8} Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. Open

^{Isaiah 49:2} And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me; Open

^{Isaiah 51:16} And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people. Open

^{Jeremiah 2:6} Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt? Open

^{Jeremiah 13:16} Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness. Open

^{Jeremiah 48:45} They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones. Open

^{Lamentations 4:20} The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen. Open

^{Ezekiel 17:23} In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell. Open

^{Ezekiel 31:6} All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations. Open

^{Ezekiel 31:12} And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him. Open

^{Ezekiel 31:17} They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen. Open

^{Daniel 4:12} The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it. Open

^{Hosea 4:13} They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery. Open

^{Hosea 14:7} They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. Open

^{Amos 5:8} Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name: Open

^{Jonah 4:5} So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city. Open

^{Jonah 4:6} And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. Open

^{Matthew 4:16} The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. Open

^{Mark 4:32} But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it. Open

^{Luke 1:79} To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. Open

^{Acts 5:15} Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them. Open

^{Colossians 2:17} Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. Open

^{Hebrews 8:5} Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount. Open

^{Hebrews 10:1} For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. Open

^{James 1:17} Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Open

^{Psalm 23:4} Yea, 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. Open

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