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Lexicon :: Strong's H6757 - ṣalmāveṯ

Aa
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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:5 - Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:21 - Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:22 - A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:22 - Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:16 - My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:17 - For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:3 - Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:22 - There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:17 - Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:4 - Yes, though I go through the valley of deep shade, I will have no fear of evil; for you are with me, your rod and your support are my comfort.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:19 - Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:10 - Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:14 - He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:2 - The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6 - And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:16 - Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:8 - Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;
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