'Shadow' in the Bible

Isaiah said, "This [is] the sign for you from Yahweh that Yahweh will do the thing that he has promised: Shall the shadow advance ten steps or shall it return ten steps?"

Hezekiah answered, "It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backwards ten steps."

Isaiah the prophet called to Yahweh, and he brought back the shadow on the steps where it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz, backwards ten steps.

For we [are] strangers before you and sojourners like all our ancestors. Our days [are] like the shadow upon earth, and there is no hope [of abiding].

Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let clouds settle on it; let them terrify it [with the] blackness of day.

Like a slave he longs for [the] shadow, and like a laborer he waits for his wages.

for we [are of] yesterday, and we do not know, for our days on earth [are] a shadow.

Before I go--and I will not return-- to [the] land of darkness and deep shadow,

to [the] land of darkness, like [the] darkness of a deep shadow and {chaos}, so that it shines forth like darkness.'"

"He uncovers mysteries out of darkness, and he brings deep shadow to the light.

Like a flower he comes up, and he withers away; and he flees like a shadow, but he does not last.

And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body [are] all like a shadow.

He puts an end to darkness, and he searches out the farthest limits [for the] ore [in] gloom and deep shadow.

There is no darkness, and there is no deep shadow where instigators of mischief might hide themselves.

Have [the] gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen [the] gates of deep shadow?

Keep me as {the apple of your eye}. Hide me in the shadow of your wings

How precious [is] your loyal love, O God, and the children of humankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

Surely a man walks about as a [mere] {shadow}; surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up [possessions] but does not know who [will] gather them [in].

But you have crushed us in a place of jackals, and have covered us with deep shadow.

Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me, because in you my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of your wings I will take refuge until destruction passes by.

Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.

[One who] lives in the secret place of the Most High will lodge in the shadow of Shaddai.

My days [are] like a lengthened shadow, and I wither like grass.

Like a lengthening shadow I am passing away; I am shaken off like a locust.

Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.

For who knows what [is] good for a man in his life during the few days of his fleeting life, which are fleeting as a shadow? For who can tell anyone what will happen {in the future} under the sun?

But it will not go well with the wicked, and they will not prolong [their] days, like the shadow; because there is no fearing {God's presence}.

Who go to go down [to] Egypt, but they do not ask [of] my mouth, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt.

And the protection of Pharaoh shall be shame to you, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt, humiliation.

There [the] owl shall nest and lay and hatch and care for her chicks in her shadow; surely there [the] birds of prey shall be gathered, each one [with] her mate.

Look! I will cause [the] shadow of the steps, which it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz with the sun, to turn backwards ten steps." And the sun turned back ten steps on the steps which it had gone down.

And he {made} my mouth like a sharp sword; he hid me in the shadow of his hand, and he {made} me like an sharpened arrow; he hid me in his quiver.

And I have put my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of my hand, to plant [the] heavens and to found [the] earth, saying to Zion, 'You [are] my people.'"

"In the shadow of Heshbon fugitives stand without strength, for a fire has gone out from Heshbon, and a flame from Sihon. And it has eaten the forehead of Moab, and the skulls of the people of tumult.

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed one of Yahweh, was captured in their pits; of whom we said, "In his shadow we will live among the nations."

In its branches all the birds of the heaven made their nest, and under its branches all the animals of the field gave birth, and in its shadow all [the] many nations lived.

And strangers cut it off, [the most] ruthless of nations, and they abandoned it. On the mountains and in all [of the] valleys its branches fell, and its branches were broken in all the river channels of the land, and all the peoples of the world went out from its shadow, and they abandoned it.

They also went down with it to Sheol to {those who died by the sword}, and its army [who] [had] lived in its shadow in the midst of nations.

{They will again dwell} in my shadow; they will grow grain and they will blossom like the plant vine; his fame [will be] like the wine of Lebanon.