Reference: Shadow
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Sometimes denotes intense darkness and gloom, Ps 23:4, and sometimes a cool retreat, Isa 33:2, or perfect protection, Ps 17:8; Isa 49:2; Da 4:12. The long shadows cast by the declining sun are alluded to in Job 7:2; Jer 6:4. The swift, never ceasing motion of a shadow is an emblem of human life, 1Ch 29:15; Ps 102:11.
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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.
As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
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 hid me;
Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
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used in Col 2:17; Heb 8:5; 10:1 to denote the typical relation of the Jewish to the Christian dispensation.
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Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.