Topic
Shadow of Death
15 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Job 3:5ISBE
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
- Job 10:21ISBE
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
- Job 12:22ISBE
He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
- Job 16:16ISBE
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
- Job 24:17ISBE
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.
- Job 28:3ISBE
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
- Job 34:22ISBE
There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
- Job 38:17ISBE
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
- Psalms 23:4ISBE
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.
- Isaiah 9:2ISBE
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.
- Jeremiah 2:6ISBE
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,…
- Jeremiah 13:16ISBE
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.
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- Amos 5:8 ISBE
- Matthew 4:16 ISBE
- Luke 1:79 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 19 references
(tsalmaweth): The Hebrew word translated "shadow of death" is used poetically for thick darkness (Job 3:5), as descriptive of Sheol (Job 10:21 f; 12:22; 38:17); figuratively of deep distress (Job 12:22; 16:16; 24:17; 28:3; 34:22 (in the last three passages the American Standard Revised Version has "thick darkness" and "thick gloom"); Ps 23:4, the Revised Version margin "deep darkness (and so elsewhere)"; 44:19; 107:10,14; Isa 9:2; Jer 2:6; 13:16; Am 5:8; Mt 4:16; Lu 1:79, skia thanatou). The Hebrew word is perhaps composed of tsel, "shadow," and maweth, "death," and the idea of "the valley of the shadow of death" was most probably derived from the deep ravines, darkened by over-hanging briars, etc., through which the shepherd had sometimes to lead or drive his sheep to new and better pastures.
W. L. Walker
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.