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 no abiding.
As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as a hireling looketh for the reward of his work;
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shade of thy wings.
Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shades 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 to 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 shade 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 to us! for the day departeth, for the shadows of the evening are lengthened.
Its leaves were fair, and its fruit abundant, and in it was food for all: the beasts of the field had shade under it, and the fowls of heaven dwelt among its boughs, and all flesh was fed from it.
Easton
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 to the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished by God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See (saith he) that thou make all things according to the pattern shown 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 to them perfect.