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# צַלְמָוֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6757

**death-shadow** — used 18 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

death-shadow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6757/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צַלְמָ֫וֶת: death-shadow, deep shadow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6757/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] death-shadow, deep shadow, poet. (prob. = צֵל + מָוֶת, 𝔊 (usually) σκιὰ θανάτου, cf. 𝔖 𝔙, so Thes SchwallyLeben n. d. Tode, 194, v. especially NöZAW xvii (1897), 183 ff.; Ew Br and most mod. (after older comm.) read צַלְמוּת darkness, deep darkness, cp. Arabic ظَلَمَ iv, Assyrian \[ṣalâmu\], Ethiopic ጸልመ be black, dark);—death-shadow, cf. ظُلْمَةٌ 6, often ‖ חֹשֶׁךְ, לַיְלָה, etc., and opp. בֹּקֶר, אוֹר. = deep shadow, darkness (cf. הַרְרֵי אֵל, אַרְזֵי אֵל): Am 5:8; Jb 3:5; 12:22; 24:17a; 28:3; 34:22; of eyes heavy with weeping 16:16; בַּלְהוֹת צ׳ 24:17b terrors of the darkness. fig. of distress Je 13:16 ψ 107:10, 14; אֶרֶץ צ׳ Is 9:1. of extreme danger Je 2:6 ψ 23:4; 44:20. characterizing world of the dead, אֶרֶץ חֹשֶׁךְ וצ׳ Jb 10:21, כְּמוֹ אֹפֶל צ׳ v 22 (text dub., v. Bu Du); וְשַׁעֲרֵי צ׳ 38:17 (𝔊 πυλωροὶ δὲ ᾅδου; ‖ שַׁעֲרֵי־מָ֑וֶת).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: deep darkness (13); of deep darkness (5).

## In the verses

[Psalms 107:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.10/#tree)

יֹ֭שְׁבֵי חֹ֣שֶׁךְ וְצַלְמָ֑וֶת אֲסִירֵ֖י עֳנִ֣י וּבַרְזֶֽל׃

*Word for word:* \[those.who\].sat of.darkness and deep.darkness prisoners of.affliction and iron

*JPS 1917:* Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron —

[Job 12:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.12.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.12.22/#tree)

מְגַלֶּ֣ה עֲ֭מֻקוֹת מִנִּי־חֹ֑שֶׁךְ וַיֹּצֵ֖א לָא֣וֹר צַלְמָֽוֶת׃

*Word for word:* \[he.is\].revealing unfathomable.\[things\] from darkness and he.brought.out to the light deep.darkness

*JPS 1917:* He uncovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6757.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6757/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).