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Lexicon :: Strong's H6738 - ṣēl

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צֵל
Transliteration
ṣēl
Pronunciation
tsale
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
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TWOT Reference: 1921a

Strong’s Definitions

צֵל tsêl, tsale; from H6751; shade, whether literal or figurative:—defence, shade(-ow).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 49x

The KJV translates Strong's H6738 in the following manner: shadow (45x), defence (3x), shade (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 49x
The KJV translates Strong's H6738 in the following manner: shadow (45x), defence (3x), shade (1x).

  1. shadow, shade

    1. shadow (on dial)

    2. shadow, shade (as protection)

    3. shadow (symbolic of transitoriness of life)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
צֵל tsêl, tsale; from H6751; shade, whether literal or figurative:—defence, shade(-ow).
STRONGS H6738: Abbreviations
† צֵל noun masculinePsalm 144:4 shadow; — צ׳ absolute 2 Kings 20:9 +, construct Genesis 19:8 +; suffix צִלְךָ Psalm 121:5, צִלּוֺ Ezekiel 31:6 +, also צִלְלוֺ [H6752 Job 40:22], etc.; plural צְלָלִים [H6752 Songs 2:17; Songs 4:6]; construct צִלְלֵי [H6752 Jeremiah 6:4]; —
1. shadow on dial 2 Kings 20:9, 2 Kings 20:10 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 20:11 || Isaiah 38:8; צִלְלֶיעָֿ֑רֶב [H6752 Jeremiah 6:4], compare [H6752 Songs 2:17; Songs 4:6]; of mountain Judges 9:36.
2. shadow, shade, as protection (from sun): of branches, Judges 9:15 (in allegory), Hosea 4:13; [H6752 Job 40:22]; Jonah 4:5, Jonah 4:6 and (in figurative) Hosea 14:8 [Hosea 14:7]; Ezekiel 17:23; Ezekiel 31:6, Ezekiel 31:12, Ezekiel 31:17; Psalm 80:11 [Psalm 80:10]; Songs 2:3 (of refreshment, delight); of rock Isaiah 32:2 (simile); קֹרָתִי צ׳ Genesis 19:8 shadow of my roof; of cloud Isaiah 25:4 and (figurative of י׳'s protection) Isaiah 4:6; Isaiah 25:4, so probably Isaiah 16:3; כְּנָפֶיךָ צ׳ shadow of thy wings, figurative of י׳'s protection Psalm 17:8; Psalm 36:8 [Psalm 36:7]; Psalm 57:2 [Psalm 57:1]; Psalm 63:8 [Psalm 63:7]; shade, in general, Job 7:2, figurative of י׳ Psalm 121:5; hence = protection, defence, of city (wall) Jeremiah 48:45; of י׳ Numbers 14:9 (JE), Psalm 91:1 (see also proper name בְּצַלְאֵל), compare צֵל יָדוֺ Isaiah 49:2 (covering prophet, under figure of sword), Isaiah 51:16 (covering people); of human ally Isaiah 30:2, Isaiah 30:3, of king Lamentations 4:20; also of wisdom Ecclesiastes 7:12, money Ecclesiastes 7:12. — בְּצִלָּהּ Isaiah 34:15 apparently reference to קִפּוֹז, but improbable; read perhaps בֵּצֶיהָ her eggs Du CheHpt (CheHeb Hpt transpose וּבָֽקְעָה וְדָֽגְרָה).
3. shadow as symbol of transitoriness of life Job 8:9; Job 14:2; Psalm 144:4 (כְּצֵל עוֺבֵר), Ecclesiastes 6:12; Ecclesiastes 8:13; כְּצֵל נָטוּי of an individual life near its end Psalm 102:12 [Psalm 102:11], so כְּצֵל כִּנְטוֺתוֺ Psalm 109:23; in simile of emaciated members, וִיצֻרַי כַּצֵּל Job 17:7.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

19:8; 19:8

Numbers

14:9

Judges

9:15; 9:36

2 Kings

20:9; 20:9; 20:10; 20:11

Job

7:2; 8:9; 14:2; 17:7

Psalms

17:8; 36:7; 57:1; 63:7; 80:10; 91:1; 102:11; 109:23; 121:5; 121:5; 144:4; 144:4

Ecclesiastes

6:12; 7:12; 7:12; 8:13

Song of Songs

2:3

Isaiah

4:6; 16:3; 25:4; 25:4; 30:2; 30:3; 32:2; 34:15; 38:8; 49:2; 51:16

Jeremiah

48:45

Lamentations

4:20

Ezekiel

17:23; 31:6; 31:6; 31:12; 31:17

Hosea

4:13; 14:7

Jonah

4:5; 4:6

H6738

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Strong's Number H6738 matches the Hebrew צֵל (ṣēl),
which occurs 49 times in 47 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:8 - But I have two daughters, who have not known a man. I will bring them out to you, and do ye use them as it may please you, only do not injury to these men, to avoid which they came under the shelter of my [fn]roof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:9 - Only depart not from the Lord; and fear ye not the people of the land, for they are meat for us; for the season of prosperity is departed from them, but the Lord is among us: fear them not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:15 - And the bramble said to the trees, If ye in truth anoint me to reign over you, come, stand under my shadow; and if not, let fire come out from me and devour the cedars of Libanus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:36 - And Gaal the son of Jobel saw the people, and said to Zebul, Behold, a people comes down from the top of the mountains: and Zebul said to him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as men.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:9 - And Esaias said, This is the sign from the Lord, that the Lord will perform the word which he has spoken, the shadow of the dial shall advance ten degrees: or if it should go back ten degrees this would also be the sign.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:10 - And Ezekias said, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return ten degrees backward [fn]on the dial.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:11 - And Esaias the prophet cried to the Lord: and the shadow returned back ten degrees on the dial.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:15 - for we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days upon the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:2 - Or as a servant that fears his master, and one who has grasped a shadow? or as a hireling waiting for his pay?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:9 - (for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our life upon the earth is a shadow:)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:2 - Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed; and he departs like a shadow, and cannot continue.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:7 - For my eyes are dimmed through pain; I have been grievously beset by all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:8 - (LXX 16:8) Keep me as the apple of the eye from those that resist thy right hand: thou shalt screen me by the covering of thy wings,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:7 - (LXX 35:8) How hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O God! so the children of men shall trust in the shelter of thy wings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:1 - (LXX 56:1) For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial, when he fled from the presence of Saul to the cave. (56:2) Have mercy, upon me, O God, have mercy upon me: for my soul has trusted in thee: and in the shadow of thy wings will I hope, until the iniquity have passed away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:7 - (LXX 62:8) For thou hast been my helper, and in the shelter of thy wings will I rejoice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:10 - (LXX 79:11) Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots equalled the [fn]goodly cedars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:1 - (LXX 90:1) Praise of a Song, by David. He that dwells in the help of the Highest, shall sojourn under the shelter of the God of heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:11 - (LXX 101:12) My days have declined like a shadow; and I am withered like grass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:23 - (LXX 108:23) I am removed as a shadow in its going down: I am tossed up and down like locusts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 121:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 121:5 - (LXX 120:5) The Lord shall keep thee: the Lord is thy shelter upon thy right hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:4 - (LXX 143:4) Man is like to vanity: his days pass as a shadow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:12 - What advantage has a man? for who knows what is good for a man in his life, during the number of the life of the days of his vanity? and he has spent them as a shadow; for who shall tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:12 - For wisdom in its shadow is as the shadow of silver: and the excellence of the knowledge of wisdom will give life to him that has it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:13 - but it shall not be well with the ungodly, and he shall not prolong his days, which are as a shadow; forasmuch as he fears not before God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:3 - As the apple among the trees of the wood, so is my kinsman among the sons. I desired his shadow, and sat down, and his fruit was sweet in my throat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:6 - And it shall be for a shadow from the heat, and as a shelter and a hiding-place from inclemency of weather and from rain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:3 - take farther counsel, and continually make thou a shelter from grief: they flee in darkness at mid-day; they are amazed; be not thou led captive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:4 - For thou hast been a helper to every lowly city, and a shelter to them that were disheartened by reason of poverty: thou shalt deliver them from wicked men: thou hast been a shelter of them that thirst, and a refreshing air to injured men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:5 - We were as faint-hearted men thirsting in Sion, by reason of ungodly men to whom thou didst deliver us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:2 - even they that proceed to go down into Egypt, but they have not enquired of me, that they might be helped by Pharao, and protected by the Egyptians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:3 - For the protection of Pharao shall be to you a disgrace, and there shall be a reproach to them that trust in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:2 - And a man shall hide his words, and be hidden, as from rushing water, and shall appear in Sion as a rushing river, glorious in a thirsty land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:15 - There has the hedgehog made its nest, and the earth has safely preserved its young: there have the deer met, and seen one another's faces.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:8 - behold, I will turn back the shadow of the degrees of the dial by which ten degrees on the house of thy father the sun has gone down—I will turn back the sun the ten degrees; so the sun went back the ten degrees by which the shadow had gone down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:2 - and he has made my mouth as a sharp sword, and he has hid me under the shadow of his hand; he has made me as a choice shaft, and he has hid me in his quiver;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:16 - I will put my words into thy mouth, and I will shelter thee under the shadow of mine hand, with which I fixed the sky, and founded the earth: and the Lord shall say to Sion, Thou art my people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:20 - Rechs. The breath of our nostrils, our anointed Lord, was taken in their destructive snares, of whom we said, In his shadow we shall live among the Gentiles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:23 - and I will hang it on a lofty mountain of Israel: yea, I will plant it, and it shall put forth shoots, and shall bear fruit, and it shall be a great cedar: and every bird shall rest beneath it, even every fowl shall rest under its shadow: its branches shall be restored.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:6 - All the birds of the sky made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches all the wild beasts of the field bred; the whole multitude of nations dwelt under his shadow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:12 - And ravaging strangers from the nations have destroyed him, and have cast him down upon the mountains: his branches fell in all the valleys, and his boughs were broken in every field of the land; and all the people of the nations are gone down from their shelter, and have laid him low.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:17 - For they went down to hell with him among the slain with the sword; and his seed, even they that dwelt under his shadow, perished in the midst of their life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:13 - They have sacrificed on the tops of the mountains, and on the hills they have sacrificed under the oak and poplar, and under the shady tree, because the shade was good: therefore your daughters shall go a-whoring, and your daughters-in-law shall commit adultery.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:7 - (LXX 14:8) They shall return, and dwell under his shadow: they shall live and be satisfied with corn, and he shall flower as a vine: his memorial shall be to Ephraim as the wine of Libanus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:5 - And Jonas went out from the city, and sat over against the city; and he made for himself there a booth, and he sat under it, until he should perceive what would become of the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:6 - And the Lord God commanded a gourd, and it came up over the head of Jonas, to be a shadow over his head, to shade him from his calamities: and Jonas rejoiced with great joy for the gourd.
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