Quick Definition
shadow
Strong's Definition
shade of death, i.e. the grave (figuratively, calamity)
Derivation: from H6738 (צֵל) and H4194 (מָוֶת);
KJV Usage: shadow of death.
TWOT Reference: 1921b
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
צַלְמָ֫וֶת (tsal.ma.vet) — 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)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m · מָוֶת · צֵל
Dark | ≈ חֹשֶׁךְ
deep darkness literally: shadow of death, only found in poetry; hence: = state in which there is a total absence of light ► resulting in a state in which no one can readily see, and colors and shapes can no longer to distinguished; loved by the wicked only; ≈ associated with hardship, ignorance, fear, death, and oblivion
JOB 3:5 · JOB 10:21 · JOB 10:22 · JOB 12:22 · JOB 16:16 · JOB 24:17 · JOB 24:17 · JOB 28:3 · JOB 34:22 · JOB 38:17 · PSA 23:4 · PSA 44:20 · PSA 107:10 · PSA 107:14 · ISA 9:1 · JER 2:6 · JER 13:16 · AMO 5:8
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
צַלְמָ֫וֶת n.[m.] death-shadow, deep shadow, poet. base