The word in Scripture

Shadow in the Bible

The word shadow appears 73 times in the King James Version of the Bible. A shadow is both fleeting and, under God's wings, a place of shelter. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What shadow means in the Bible

A shadow is both fleeting and, under God's wings, a place of shelter.

Where the word shadow appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word shadow appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“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.”Psalms 23:4

“He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”Psalms 91:1

“Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.”Isaiah 16:3

“Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.”Isaiah 30:3

“The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.”Matthew 4:16

“To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”Luke 1:79

“Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.”Colossians 2:17

“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.”Hebrews 10:1