TBESH · H6738
צֵל · tsel · shadow
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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tsel H6738
צֵל (tsel) means “shadow” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
צֵל Hebrew · H6738 49 tagged occurrences in 47 verses
Pronunciation guide: tsale Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
from H6751 (צָלַל); shade, whether literal or figurative
KJV glosses: defence, shade(-ow).
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How translators render H6738
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| in the shadow | 6 |
| shade | 4 |
| shadow | 4 |
| in its shade | 3 |
| in his shade | 2 |
| like a shadow | 2 |
| a shade | 1 |
| are but a shadow | 1 |
| are like a shadow | 1 |
| as the shade | 1 |
| by its shade | 1 |
| for it | 1 |
| for the shadow | 1 |
| her brood under her shadow | 1 |
| in my shade | 1 |
| in the shade | 1 |
| is a shelter | 1 |
| is but a shadow | 1 |
| is the shade | 1 |
| its shade | 1 |
| like a fleeting shadow | 1 |
| like the shadow | 1 |
| shadows | 1 |
| the shadow | 1 |
| the shadows | 1 |
| their protection | 1 |
| their shade | 1 |
| to give shade | 1 |
| under his shadow | 1 |
| under the protection | 1 |
| with shade | 1 |
| with the shadow | 1 |
| would you like the shadow | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| as a shadow | 5 |
| in the shadow | 4 |
| the shadow | 4 |
| under his shadow | 3 |
| under the shadow | 3 |
| a defence | 2 |
| a shadow | 2 |
| with the shadow | 2 |
| also as a shadow | 1 |
| and under his shadow | 1 |
| as the shadow | 1 |
| because the shadow | 1 |
| down under his shadow | 1 |
| for a shadow | 1 |
| for the shadow | 1 |
| for us their defence | 1 |
| from his shadow | 1 |
| in my shadow | 1 |
| in thee yea in the shadow | 1 |
| like a shadow | 1 |
| like the shadow | 1 |
| me under the shadow | 1 |
| nay but let the shadow | 1 |
| shall the shadow | 1 |
| that it might be a shadow | 1 |
| thee in the shadow | 1 |
| therefore in the shadow | 1 |
| they under the shadow | 1 |
| thy shade | 1 |
| thy shadow | 1 |
| under her shadow | 1 |
| under it in the shadow | 1 |
Verses containing H6738
Page 1 of 1. 47 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 19:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them to you, and you can do to them as you please. But do not do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
Read word by word - Numbers 14:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Only do not rebel against the LORD, and do not be afraid of the people of the land, for they will be like bread for us. Their protection has been removed, and the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them!”
Read word by word - Judges 9:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But the thornbush replied, ‘If you really are anointing me as king over you, come and find refuge in my shade. But if not, may fire come out of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon.’
Read word by word - Judges 9:36
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the mountains!” But Zebul replied, “The shadows of the mountains look like men to you.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 20:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Isaiah had replied, “This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: Would you like the shadow to go forward ten steps, or back ten steps?”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 20:10
· BSB · 2 occurrences
“It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps,” answered Hezekiah, “but not for it to go back ten steps.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 20:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Isaiah the prophet called out to the LORD, and He brought the shadow back the ten steps it had descended on the stairway of Ahaz.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 29:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
Read word by word - Job 7:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.
Read word by word - Job 8:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
Read word by word - Job 14:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
Read word by word - Job 17:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
Read word by word - Psalms 17:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings
Read word by word - Psalms 36:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 36.8
- Psalms 57:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy, for in You my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of Your wings I will take shelter until the danger has passed.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 57.2
- Psalms 63:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For You are my help; I will sing for joy in the shadow of Your wings.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 63.8
- Psalms 80:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The mountains were covered by its shade, and the mighty cedars with its branches.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 80.11
- Psalms 91:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
Read word by word - Psalms 102:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 102.12
- Psalms 109:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
Read word by word - Psalms 121:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is the shade on your right hand.
Read word by word - Psalms 144:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 6:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 7:12
· BSB · 2 occurrences
For wisdom, like money, is a shelter, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 8:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.
Read word by word - Song of Solomon 2:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
Read word by word - Isaiah 4:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and the rain.
Read word by word - Isaiah 16:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.
Read word by word - Isaiah 25:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,
Read word by word - Isaiah 25:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
like heat in a dry land. You subdue the uproar of foreigners. As the shade of a cloud cools the heat, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.
Read word by word - Isaiah 30:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection and take refuge in Egypt’s shade.
Read word by word - Isaiah 30:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.
Read word by word - Isaiah 32:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.
Read word by word - Isaiah 34:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
There the owl will make her nest; she will lay and hatch her eggs and gather her brood under her shadow. Even there the birds of prey will gather, each with its mate.
Read word by word - Isaiah 38:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will make the sun’s shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had descended.
Read word by word - Isaiah 49:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He made My mouth like a sharp sword; He hid Me in the shadow of His hand. He made Me like a polished arrow; He hid Me in His quiver.
Read word by word - Isaiah 51:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I have put My words in your mouth, and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 48:45
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbon’s shadow, because fire has gone forth from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons of tumult.
Read word by word - Lamentations 4:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”
Read word by word - Ezekiel 17:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will plant it on the mountain heights of Israel so that it will bear branches; it will yield fruit and become a majestic cedar. Birds of every kind will nest under it, taking shelter in the shade of its branches.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 31:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
All the birds of the air nested in its branches, and all the beasts of the field gave birth beneath its boughs; all the great nations lived in its shade.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 31:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 31:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They too descended with it to Sheol, to those slain by the sword. As its allies they had lived in its shade among the nations.
Read word by word - Hosea 4:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.
Read word by word - Hosea 14:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They will return and dwell in his shade; they will grow grain and blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 14.8
- Jonah 4:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Jonah left the city and sat down east of it, where he made himself a shelter and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city.
Read word by word - Jonah 4:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the LORD God appointed a vine, and it grew up to provide shade over Jonah’s head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant.
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