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Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
Read in context →Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Read in context →15 occurrences in 14 verses.
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tsêl · tsale
shade, whether literal or figurative
Strong's KJV usage: defence, shade(-ow).
Strong's first: Genesis 19:8Strong's last: Jonah 4:6
Open full H6738 profile →skiá · skee'-ah
"shade" or a shadow (literally or figuratively (darkness of error or an adumbration))
Strong's KJV usage: :-- shadow.
Strong's first: Matthew 4:16Strong's last: Hebrews 10:1
Open full G4639 profile →aposkíasma · ap-os-kee'-as-mah
a shading off, i.e. obscuration
Strong's KJV usage: :--shadow.
Strong's first: James 1:17Strong's last: James 1:17
Open full G644 profile →ṭᵉlal · tel-al'
to cover with shade
Strong's KJV usage: have a shadow.
Strong's first: Daniel 4:12Strong's last: Daniel 4:12
Open full H2927 profile →tsêlel · tsay'-lel
shade
Strong's KJV usage: shadow.
Strong's first: Job 40:22Strong's last: Job 40:22
Open full H6752 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
13 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
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.
How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
<<To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave.>> Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
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SHAD'OW, noun
1. Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a plane and represtnting the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as the shadow of a man, of a tree or a tower. The shadow of the earth in in an eclipse of the moon is proof of its sphericity.
2. Darkness; shade; obscurity.
Night's sable shadows from the ocean rise. Denham.
3. Shelter made by any thing that intercepts the light, heat or influence of the air.
In secret shadow from the sunny ray,
On a sweet bed of lilies softly laid. Spenser.
4. Obscure place; secluded retreat.
To secret shadows I retire. [Obs.] Dryden.
5. Dark part of a picture. Obs. [In the last two senses, shade is now used.]
6. A spirit; a ghost. Obs. [In this sense, shade is now used.]
7. In painting, the representation of a real shadow
8. An imperfect and faint representation; opposed to substance.
The law of having a shadow of good things to come. Hebrews 10:1.
9. Inseparable companion.
Sin and her shadow, death. Milton.
10. Type; mystical representaion.
Types and shadows of that destin'd seed. Milton.
11. Protection; shelter; favor.
12. Slight or faint appearance.
Shadow of death, terrible darkness, trouble or death.
SHAD'OW, verb transitive
1. To overspread with obscurity.
The warlike elf much wonder'd at this tree
So fair and great, that shadow'd all the ground. Spenser. [Shade is more generally used.]
2. To cloud; to darken.
The shadow'd livery of the burning sun. Shak.
3. To make cool; to refresh by shade; or to shade.
Flowery fields and shadowed waters. Sidney.
4. To conceal; to hide; to screen.
Let every soldier hew him down a bough,
And bear't before him; thereby shall we shadow
The number of our host. [Unusual.] Shak.
5. To protect; to screen from danger; to shroud.
Shadowing their right under your wings of war. Shak.
6. To mark with slight gradations of color or light. [In this sense, shade is chiefly used.]
7. to paint in obscure colors; as void spaces deeply shadowed.
8. To represent faintly or imperfectly.
Augustus is shadowed in the person of adjectiveEneas. Dryden.
9. To represent typically. The healing power of the serpent shadoweth the efficacy of Christ's righteousness. [The two last senses are in use. In place of the others, shade is now more generally used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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