1. צִלְמָוֶת
shadow of death
The corpus record — Hebrew
צַלְמָ֔וֶת
tsalmaveth
shadow of death
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 18 · 0.59/10k
Senses
2. צַלְמָ֫וֶת
death-shadow, deep shadow
3. צַלְמָוֶת
shade of death, i.e. the grave (figuratively, calamity)
Attestations
- צַלְמָ֔וֶת Isaiah 9:1 (BHS)
- וְ/צַלְמָ֔וֶת Jeremiah 2:6 (BHS)
- לְ/צַלְמָ֔וֶת Jeremiah 13:16 (BHS)
- צַלְמָ֔וֶת Amos 5:8 (BHS)
- צַלְמָ֡וֶת Psalms 23:4 (BHS)
- בְ/צַלְמָֽוֶת Psalms 44:20 (BHS)
6 of 18 attestations shown.
Deep etymology
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.