צַלְמָוֶת tsalmavet
Hebrew word for “shadow” · Strong’s H6757 · used 18 times in 17 verses
Meaning
1) death-shadow, deep shadow, deep darkness, shadow of death;
How it is translated
Glosses given for tsalmavet in context, with how often each is used:
- deep darkness 18
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Job 10 (2), Psalms 107 (2), Job 3 (1), Job 12 (1), Job 16 (1), Job 24 (1), Job 28 (1), Job 34 (1), Job 38 (1), Psalms 23 (1)
Forms
- צלמות 10
- וצלמות 6
- בצלמות 1
- לצלמות 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with tsalmavet more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- חֹשֶׁךְ choshekh “darkness” 8
- אוֹר or “light” 3
- אֹפֶל ophel “darkness” 2
- חָשַׁךְ chashakh “to darken” 2
- טֶרֶם terem “before” 2
- הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 4
- גָּלָה galah “to reveal” 2
- בֹּקֶר boqer “morning” 2
- יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 3
- שׂוּם sum “to set” 2
- שָׁם sham “there” 2
- יָצָא yatsa “to come out” 2
Key verses
The verses using tsalmavet that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- 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.
- Job 10:21 — Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
- Job 12:22 — He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
- Job 34:22 — There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
- Psalms 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.
- Psalms 44:19 — Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
- Psalms 107:10 — Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
- Psalms 107:14 — He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
- 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.
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
See all 17 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.