Tsalmavet צַלְמָ֫וֶת

Tsalmavet (Hebrew צַלְמָ֫וֶת, Strong's H6757) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “shadow”. It occurs 18 times in 17 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Tsalmavet, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Job

• Job 3:5
  Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
• Job 10:21
  Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,
• Job 10:22
  A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
• Job 12:22
  He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into light.
• Job 16:16
  My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;
• Job 24:17
  For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!
• Job 28:3
  He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.Man puts an end to the darkness; he probes the farthest recesses for ore in deepest darkness.
• Job 34:22
  There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.
• Job 38:17
  Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Psalms

• Psalm 23:4
  Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.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.
• Psalm 44:19
  Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
• Psalm 107:10
  Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,
• Psalm 107:14
  He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 9:2
  The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.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.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 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, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?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?’
• Jeremiah 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, and make it gross 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.

Amos

• Amos 5:8
  Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death 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: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—

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).