# צֵל (tsel) Israeli respelling: tsel. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H6738. 47 Old Testament occurrences. shade, whether literal or figurative King James renderings: defence, shade(-ow). Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/tsel-h6738 ## Occurrences - [Genesis 19:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/19/8) — 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 you… - [Numbers 14:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/9) — 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,… - [Judges 9:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/9/15) — 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 fir… - [Judges 9:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/9/36) — 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… - [2 Kings 20:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/20/9) — 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 te… - [2 Kings 20:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/20/10) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/20/11) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/29/15) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/7/2) — As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: - [Job 8:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/8/9) — (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) - [Job 14:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/14/2) — He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. - [Job 17:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/17/7) — Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. - [Psalms 17:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/17/8) — Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings, - [Psalms 36:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/36/7) — How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. - [Psalms 57:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/57/1) — 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… - [Psalms 63:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/63/7) — Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. - [Psalms 80:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/80/10) — The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. - [Psalms 91:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/91/1) — He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. - [Psalms 102:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/102/11) — My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass. - [Psalms 109:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/109/23) — I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. - [Psalms 121:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/121/5) — The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand. - [Psalms 144:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/144/4) — Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. - [Ecclesiastes 6:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/6/12) — 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… - [Ecclesiastes 7:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/7/12) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/8/13) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/2/3) — 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 fru… - [Isaiah 4:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/4/6) — 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… - [Isaiah 16:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/16/3) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/25/4) — 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 t… - [Isaiah 25:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/25/5) — 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 terri… - [Isaiah 30:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/2) — 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 s… - [Isaiah 30:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/3) — Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. - [Isaiah 32:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/32/2) — 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 g… - [Isaiah 34:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/34/15) — 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… - [Isaiah 38:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/38/8) — 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… - [Isaiah 49:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/2) — 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… - [Isaiah 51:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/51/16) — 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 foundat… - [Jeremiah 48:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/48/45) — 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 mid… - [Lamentations 4:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/4/20) — 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 he… - [Ezekiel 17:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/17/23) — 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… - [Ezekiel 31:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/31/6) — 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… - [Ezekiel 31:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/31/12) — 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… - [Ezekiel 31:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/31/17) — 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 t… - [Hosea 4:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/4/13) — They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof… - [Hosea 14:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/14/7) — 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… - [Jonah 4:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/4/5) — 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 mi… - [Jonah 4:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/4/6) — 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 grie…