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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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:5 - But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it; let blackness come upon it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:21 - before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:22 - to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither can any one see the life of mortals.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:22 - Revealing deep things out of darkness: and he has brought into light the shadow of death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:16 - My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:17 - For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death, for each will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:3 - He has set a bound to darkness, and he searches out every limit: a stone is darkness, and the shadow of death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:22 - Neither shall there be a place for the workers of iniquity to hide themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:17 - And do the gates of death open to thee for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw thee?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:4 - (LXX 22:4) Yea, even if I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will not be afraid of evils: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, these have comforted me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:19 - (LXX 43:20) For thou hast laid us low in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:10 - (LXX 106:10) even them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death, fettered in poverty and iron;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:14 - (LXX 106:14) And he brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds asunder.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:2 - (LXX 9:1) O people walking in darkness, behold a great light: ye that dwell in the region and shadow of death, a light shall shine upon you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6 - And they said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land which no man at all went through, and no man dwelt there?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:16 - Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and ye shall wait for light, and behold the shadow of death, and they shall be brought into darkness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:8 - who makes all things, and changes them, and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night: who calls for the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth: the Lord is his name:
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