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shadow

Meaning of “shadow”

1. A darkened shape or shade cast by intercepted light. 2. Shelter or protection. 3. A fleeting trace or likeness. 4. A preliminary outline, type, or representation of a fuller reality.

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73 occurrences71 verses23 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 19:8

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Psalms 107:10
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 107:10 · retained source text

Such as sit in darknesse and in the shadowe of death: being bound in affliction and yron:

Psalms 107:14
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 107:14 · retained source text

Hee brought them out of darkenesse, and the shadowe of death: and brake their bands insunder.

Psalms 109:23
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 109:23 · retained source text

I am gone like the shadow, when it declineth: I am tossed vp and downe as the locust.

Psalms 144:4
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 144:4 · retained source text

Man is like to vanity: his dayes are as a shadow that passeth away.

1611 marginal notePsal.39.6. iob 14.2.

Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ecclesiastes 6:12 · retained source text

For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the dayes of his vaine life, which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shal be after him vnder the sunne?

1611 marginal noteHeb. the number of the dayes of the life of his vanitie.

1611 marginal notePsal. 144.4.

Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ecclesiastes 8:13 · retained source text

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall hee prolong his dayes which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

Song of Solomon 2:3
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Song of Solomon 2:3 · retained source text

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloued among the sonnes. I sate downe vnder his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweete to my taste.

1611 marginal noteHeb. I delighted and sate downe, &c.

1611 marginal noteHeb. palate

Isaiah 4:6
And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 4:6 · retained source text

And there shalbe a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a couert from storme and from raine.

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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 9:2 · retained source text

The people that walked in darknesse, haue seene a great light: they that dwel in the land of the shadow of death, vpon them hath the light shined.

1611 marginal noteMat.4.15. ephe.5.14.

Isaiah 16:3
Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 16:3 · retained source text

Take counsell, execute Iudgement, make thy shadow as the night in the middest of the nooneday, hide the outcastes, bewray not him that wandereth.

1611 marginal noteHeb. bring.

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