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Strong's H6738 צֵל (tsel)

Tsel means “defence” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H6738
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 47
Books 15

Strong's H6738 Quick Answer

Strong's H6738 צֵּל (tsel) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. tsel (tsale) n-m. 1. shade, whether literal or figurative [from H6751] It has 47 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include defence, shadow, and shade. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
tsel (tsale) n-m. 1. shade, whether literal or figurative [from H6751]
Usage
47 linked usages
Books
15 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
defence, shadow, and shade

Meaning and Definition

tsel (tsale) n-m. 1. shade, whether literal or figurative [from H6751] KJV: defence, shade(-ow). Root(s): H6751

Original Word
צֵּל
Transliteration
tsel
Derivation
First root strongs: 6751
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H6738. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

shadow

Usage: 1) shadow, shade 1a) shadow (on dial) 1b) shadow, shade (as protection) 1c) shadow (symbolic of transitoriness of life) Also means: tse.lel (צֵלֶל "shadow" H6752)

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How Strong's H6738 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render tsel, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

defence Numbers 14:9 shade Psalms 121:5 shadow Genesis 19:8

How Strong's H6738 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 47 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H6738 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H6738 in the Old Testament

47 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 19:8 KJV

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.

Numbers 14:9 KJV

Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.

Judges 9:15 KJV

And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

Usage Excerpts

First 47 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6738.

Genesis 19:8 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Numbers 14:9 Old Testament, KJV
Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
Judges 9:15 Old Testament, KJV
And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Judges 9:36 Old Testament, KJV
And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains. And Zebul said unto him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.
2 Kings 20:9 Old Testament, KJV
And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
2 Kings 20:10 Old Testament, KJV
And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
2 Kings 20:11 Old Testament, KJV
And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
1 Chronicles 29:15 Old Testament, KJV
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Job 7:2 Old Testament, KJV
As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
Job 8:9 Old Testament, KJV
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
Job 14:2 Old Testament, KJV
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Job 17:7 Old Testament, KJV
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Psalms 17:8 Old Testament, KJV
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
Psalms 36:7 Old Testament, KJV
How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
Psalms 57:1 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Psalms 63:7 Old Testament, KJV
Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
Psalms 80:10 Old Testament, KJV
The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
Psalms 91:1 Old Testament, KJV
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Psalms 102:11 Old Testament, KJV
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Psalms 109:23 Old Testament, KJV
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Psalms 121:5 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
Psalms 144:4 Old Testament, KJV
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Ecclesiastes 6:12 Old Testament, KJV
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?
Ecclesiastes 7:12 Old Testament, KJV
For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
Ecclesiastes 8:13 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Song of Solomon 2:3 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 4:6 Old Testament, KJV
And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
Isaiah 16:3 Old Testament, KJV
Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
Isaiah 25:4 Old Testament, KJV
For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Isaiah 25:5 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
Isaiah 30:2 Old Testament, KJV
That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
Isaiah 30:3 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
Isaiah 32:2 Old Testament, KJV
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Isaiah 34:15 Old Testament, KJV
There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Isaiah 38:8 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
Isaiah 49:2 Old Testament, KJV
And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;
Isaiah 51:16 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Jeremiah 48:45 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Lamentations 4:20 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Ezekiel 17:23 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Ezekiel 31:6 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Ezekiel 31:12 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Ezekiel 31:17 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Hosea 4:13 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Hosea 14:7 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Jonah 4:5 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Jonah 4:6 Old Testament, KJV
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.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6738, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 3 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 4 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 10 usages, Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 3 usages, Old Testament
Song of Solomon 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 11 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Old Testament
Ezekiel 4 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 2 usages, Old Testament
Jonah 2 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H6738 FAQ

What does tsel (צֵל) mean?

Tsel (Strong's H6738) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "defence". tsel (tsale) n-m. 1. shade, whether literal or figurative [from H6751]

How many times is tsel (צֵל) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 47 linked usages for Strong's H6738 across 15 books.

Where can I study tsel (צֵל) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6738 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate tsel (צֵל)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as defence, shadow, and shade. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.