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Shadow

Used in Col. 2:17; Heb. 8:5; 10:1 to denote the typical relation of the Jewish to the Christian dispensation.

In the Bible

71

Verses where Shadow is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).

  • 1 Chronicles 29:15

    For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

  • 2 Kings 20:9

    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?”

  • 2 Kings 20:10

    “It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps,” answered Hezekiah, “but not for it to go back ten steps.”

  • 2 Kings 20:11

    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.

  • Acts 5:15

    As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.

  • Amos 5:8

    He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth— the LORD is His name—

+65 more verses naming Shadow.

Entries that reference Shadow

2

Shadow references

2

Voices on Shadow

23

Surfaced by name match — accuracy varies by title clarity.

Sources · Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

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