Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6757
צַלְמָוֶת
tsalmavethtsal-maw'-veth
shadow
18 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tsalmâveth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6757is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6757
shade of death, i.e. the grave (figuratively, calamity)
The King James renders it: shadow of death.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
tsalmaveth is rendered "shadow". It stands 18 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Ten of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 3:5May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
Job 3:5וְ֭צַלְמָוֶת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- deep darkness10
- and deep darkness6
- into deep darkness1
- with deep darkness1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 18, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- צַלְמָֽוֶת׃3
- וְצַלְמָ֑וֶת2
- וְצַלְמָֽוֶת׃2
- צַלְמָ֑וֶת2
- צַלְמָ֔וֶת2
- בְצַלְמָֽוֶת׃1
- וְ֭צַלְמָוֶת1
- וְצַלְמָ֔וֶת1
- לְצַלְמָ֔וֶת1
- צַלְמָ֡וֶת1
- צַ֭לְמָוֶת1
- צַלְמָ֣וֶת1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular10HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular6HC/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
Job
ten uses
May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
- וְ֭צַלְמָוֶתvetzalmavetconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and deep darkness
before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,
- וְצַלְמָֽוֶת׃vetzalmavetconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and deep darkness
to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
- צַ֭לְמָוֶתtzalmavetnoun · masculine singulartagged: deep darkness
He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into light.
- צַלְמָֽוֶת׃tzalmavetnoun · masculine singulartagged: deep darkness
My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;
- צַלְמָֽוֶת׃tzalmavetnoun · masculine singulartagged: deep darkness
For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!
- צַלְמָ֑וֶתtzalmavetnoun · masculine singulartagged: deep darkness
- צַלְמָֽוֶת׃tzalmavetnoun · masculine singulartagged: deep darkness
Man puts an end to the darkness; he probes the farthest recesses for ore in deepest darkness.
- וְצַלְמָֽוֶת׃vetzalmavetconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and deep darkness
There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.
- צַלְמָ֑וֶתtzalmavetnoun · masculine singulartagged: deep darkness
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
- צַלְמָ֣וֶתtzalmavetnoun · masculine singulartagged: deep darkness
Psalms
four uses
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.
- צַלְמָ֡וֶתtzalmavetnoun · masculine singulartagged: deep darkness
But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
- בְצַלְמָֽוֶת׃vetzalmavetpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: with deep darkness
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,
- וְצַלְמָ֑וֶתvetzalmavetconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and deep darkness
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.
- וְצַלְמָ֑וֶתvetzalmavetconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and deep darkness
Isaiah
one use
The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.
- צַלְמָ֔וֶתtzalmavetnoun · masculine singulartagged: deep darkness
Jeremiah
two uses
They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
- וְצַלְמָ֔וֶתvetzalmavetconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and deep darkness
Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
- לְצַלְמָ֔וֶתletzalmavetpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into deep darkness
Amos
one use
He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—
- צַלְמָ֔וֶתtzalmavetnoun · masculine singulartagged: deep darkness
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.