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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.
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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
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And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
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?
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.
They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
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:
So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.
And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
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.
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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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