Tsalmaveth means “shadow of death” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6757 צַּלמָוֶת (tsalmaveth) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. tsalmaveth (tsal-maw'-veth) n-m. 1. shade of death, i.e. the grave (figuratively, calamity) [from H6738 and H4194] It has 17 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include death. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
tsalmaveth (tsal-maw'-veth) n-m. 1. shade of death, i.e. the grave (figuratively, calamity) [from H6738 and H4194] KJV: shadow of death. Root(s): H6738, H4194
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shadow
Usage: 1) death-shadow, deep shadow, deep darkness, shadow of death 1a) death-shadow 1b) death-shadow, deep shadow, darkness 1c) death-shadow (of distress, extreme danger) (fig) 1d) death-shadow (of place of the dead) (fig)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render tsalmaveth, 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.
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17 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
First 17 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6757.
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
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.
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
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.
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
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.
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.
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:
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6757, grouped by book.
Tsalmaveth (Strong's H6757) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "shadow of death". tsalmaveth (tsal-maw'-veth) n-m. 1. shade of death, i.e. the grave (figuratively, calamity) [from H6738 and H4194]
This page currently indexes 17 linked usages for Strong's H6757 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6757 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as death. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.