'Shadow' in the Bible

Isaiah replied, "This is your sign from the Lord confirming that the Lord will do what he has said. Do you want the shadow to move ahead ten steps or to go back ten steps?"

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

Isaiah the prophet called out to the Lord, and the Lord made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.

For we are resident foreigners and nomads in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!

Like a servant longing for the evening shadow, and like a hired man looking for his wages,

For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.

before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness."

He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.

The lotus trees conceal it in their shadow; the poplars by the stream conceal it.

Protect me as you would protect the pupil of your eye! Hide me in the shadow of your wings!

For the music director; according to the al-tashcheth style; a prayer of David, written when he fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, O God! Have mercy on me! For in you I have taken shelter. In the shadow of your wings I take shelter until trouble passes.

The mountains were covered by its shadow, the highest cedars by its branches.

As for you, the one who lives in the shelter of the sovereign One, and resides in the protective shadow of the mighty king --

I am fading away like a shadow at the end of the day; I am shaken off like a locust.

People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

For no one knows what is best for a person during his life -- during the few days of his fleeting life -- for they pass away like a shadow. Nor can anyone tell him what the future will hold for him on earth.

But it will not go well with the wicked, nor will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.

like heat in a dry land, you humble the boasting foreigners. Just as the shadow of a cloud causes the heat to subside, so he causes the song of tyrants to cease.

Look, I will make the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz." And then the shadow went back ten steps.

And you, Zion, city doomed to destruction, you accomplish nothing by wearing a beautiful dress, decking yourself out in jewels of gold, and putting on eye shadow! You are making yourself beautiful for nothing. Your lovers spurn you. They want to kill you.

the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and on those who sit in the region and shadow of death a light has dawned."

to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."

Thus they even carried the sick out into the streets, and put them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow would fall on some of them.

these are only the shadow of the things to come, but the reality is Christ!

The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says, "See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain."

For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.