צַלְמָ֫וֶת
tsal.ma.vet (H6757)
shadow
AI Word Study
The Hebrew term צַלְמָ֫וֶת (tsal.ma.vet) appears 18 times in the Bible, with a consistent definition as "shadow." Its meaning is rooted in the physical phenomenon of light casting dark silhouettes on the ground or on an object. In terms of usage, the term is employed across various contexts, often to describe objects or people blocking or being enveloped by light sources. Its applications range from literal depictions of trees or buildings casting shadows (e.g., Genesis 18:17) to more figurative representations of people being overshadowed or protected (e.g., Genesis 19:8, Exodus 40:35). The significance of this term lies in its representation of light's contrast to darkness and the physical world's response to light sources. Its usage reflects a connection to the divine and the natural world, serving as a tangible manifestation of the complexities and nuances found in creation.
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Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’ ”
He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.
Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.
They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who 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 one passed through, and where no man lived?’
Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.
seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,