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Lexicon :: Strong's H6757 - ṣalmāveṯ

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צַלְמָוֶת
Transliteration
ṣalmāveṯ
Pronunciation
tsal-maw'-veth
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1921b

Strong’s Definitions

צַלְמָוֶת tsalmâveth, tsal-maw'-veth; from H6738 and H4194; shade of death, i.e. the grave (figuratively, calamity):—shadow of death.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 18x

The KJV translates Strong's H6757 in the following manner: shadow of death (18x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 18x
The KJV translates Strong's H6757 in the following manner: shadow of death (18x).
  1. death-shadow, deep shadow, deep darkness, shadow of death

    1. death-shadow

    2. death-shadow, deep shadow, darkness

    3. death-shadow (of distress, extreme danger) (fig)

    4. death-shadow (of place of the dead) (fig)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
צַלְמָוֶת tsalmâveth, tsal-maw'-veth; from H6738 and H4194; shade of death, i.e. the grave (figuratively, calamity):—shadow of death.
STRONGS H6757: Abbreviations
צַלְמָ֫וֶת noun [masculine] death-shadow, deep shadow, in poetry (probably = צֵל + מָוֶת, Greek Version of the LXX. (usually) σκιὰ θανάτου, compare Syriac Version Vulgate, so Thes SchwLeben n. d. Tode, 194, see especially NöZAW xvii (1897), 183 ff.; Ew Br and most modern (after older commentaries) read צַלְמוּת darkness, deep darkness, compare Arabic bdb085307 IV, Assyrian [ṣalâmu], Ethiopic bdb085308 be black, dark); **compare bdb112702 darkness; WeKl. Proph. ed. 3, 81 would read feminine plural צְלָמוֺת, like bdb112703 Qor 2:16; 2:18; and frequently. — death-shadow, often || חשֶׁךְ, לַיְלָה etc., and opposed to בֹּקֶר, אוֺר.
1. = deep shadow, darkness (compare הַרְרֵי אֵל, אַרְזֵי אֵל): Amos 5:8; Job 3:5; Job 12:22; Job 24:17a Job 28:3; Job 34:22; of eyes heavy with weeping Job 16:16; בַּלְהוֺת צ׳ Job 24:17b terrors of the darkness.
2. figurative.
a. of distress Jeremiah 13:16; Psalm 107:10; Psalm 107:14; אֶרֶץ צ׳ Isaiah 9:1.
b. of extreme danger Jeremiah 2:6; Psalm 23:4; Psalm 44:20.
3. characterizing world of the dead, אֶרֶץ חשֶׁךְ וצ׳ Job 10:21, כְּמוֺ אֹפֶל צ׳ Job 10:22 (text dubious, see Bu Du); וְשַׁעֲרֵי צ׳ Job 38:17 (Greek Version of the LXX πυλωροὶ δὲ ᾅδου; || שַׁעֲרֵימָֿ֑וֶת).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Job

3:5; 10:21; 10:22; 12:22; 16:16; 24:17; 24:17; 28:3; 34:22; 38:17

Psalms

23:4; 44:20; 107:10; 107:14

Isaiah

9:1

Jeremiah

2:6; 13:16

Amos

5:8

H6757

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6757 matches the Hebrew צַלְמָוֶת (ṣalmāveṯ),
which occurs 18 times in 17 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:5 - Let darkness and the shadow of death H6757 stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:21 - Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; H6757
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:22 - A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, H6757 without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:22 - He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death. H6757
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:16 - My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; H6757
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:17 - For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: H6757 if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death. H6757
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:3 - He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death. H6757
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:22 - There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, H6757 where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:17 - Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? H6757
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:4 - Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, H6757 I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:19 - Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. H6757
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:10 - Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, H6757 being bound in affliction and iron;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:14 - He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, H6757 and brake their bands in sunder.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:2 - The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, H6757 upon them hath the light shined.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 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, H6757 through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 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, H6757 and make it gross darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:8 - Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death H6757 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:
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