Senses
1. deep darkness, shadow of death — A poetic compound noun (tsalmaveth) denoting the deepest, most impenetrable darkness, traditionally rendered 'shadow of death.' Used of the valley of deep shadow (Ps 23:4), of darkness in Job's laments (Job 3:5, 10:21-22, 12:22, 16:16, 24:17, 28:3, 34:22, 38:17), of spiritual darkness (Ps 44:20, 107:10,14), and prophetically of those dwelling in darkness (Isa 9:1). Multilingual evidence is uniform: eng 'deep-shadow/shadow-of-death', spa 'sombra de muerte', hin मृत्यु-छाया, arb ظِلِّ الْمَوْتِ, kor 사망의 그늘, swa 'kivuli cha mauti'. The prepositional form (S130140, with lamed 'to/towards shadow of death') is a syntactic variant, not a distinct sense. 18×
AR["بِ-ظِلِّ-المَوْتِ","ظِلَّ-المَوْتِ","ظِلَّ-مَوْتٍ","ظِلُّ-المَوْتِ","ظِلُّ-الْمَوْتِ","ظِلِّ-المَوتِ","ظِلِّ-المَوْتِ","ظِلِّ-الْمَوْتِ","وَ-ظِلَّ-المَوت","وَ-ظِلِّ-الـ-مَوْتِ","وَ-ظِلِّ-المَوت","وَ-ظِلِّ-المَوتِ","وَظِلُّ-المَوْتِ","وَظِلِّ-المَوْتِ"]·ben["এবং-মৃত্যু-ছায়া","এবং-মৃত্যুছায়া","এবং-মৃত্যুছায়ায়","এবং-মৃত্যুছায়ার","এবং-মৃত্যুর-ছায়ার","দ্বারা-মৃত্যুছায়া","মৃত্যু-ছায়া","মৃত্যুছায়া","মৃত্যুছায়াকে","মৃত্যুছায়ার","মৃত্যুছায়ার-জন্য","মৃত্যুর-ছায়া","মৃত্যুর-ছায়ার"]·DE["Todesschatten","[וצלמות]","[לצלמות]","[צלמות]","der-Todesschatten","mit-Todesschatten","und-Todesschatten"]·EN["and-deep-darkness","and-deep-shadow","and-shadow-of-death","deep-darkness","deep-shadow","is-the-shadow-of-death","the-shadow-of-death","to-shadow-of-death","with-deep-darkness"]·FR["[וצלמות]","[לצלמות]","[צלמות]","dans-ombre-de-mort","et-ombre-de-mort","ombre-de-la-mort","ombre-de-mort"]·heb["ב-צלמוות","ו-צלמוות","ל-צלמות","צלמוות","צלמות"]·HI["और-मृत्यु-छाया","और-मृत्यु-छाया-का","और-मृत्यु-छाया-की","और-मृत्यु-छाया-में","और-मृत्यु-छाया-से","घोर-अंधकार","मृत्यु-की-छाया-की","मृत्यु-की-छाया-के","मृत्यु-छाया","मृत्यु-छाया-के","मृत्यु-छाया-को","में-छाया-मृत्यु-की"]·ID["bayang-bayang kematian","bayang-bayang maut","bayang-bayang-maut","bayang-kematian","bayangan-maut","dan-bayang-bayang-kematian","dan-bayang-kematian","dan-bayangan-maut","kegelapan","menjadi-bayangan-maut"]·IT["[וצלמות]","[לצלמות]","[צלמות]","e-ombra-di-morte","ombra-di-morte"]·jav["ayang-ayangan-pejah","ayang-ayanganing-pejah","kalayan-eyangéning-pejah","kanggé-pepeteng-pejah","lan-ayang-ayanganing-pejah","lan-wayanganipun-pejah","wewayangan-pejah"]·KO["-좽음-의-그림자-로","그리고-사망-그림자-의","그리고-사망의-그늘","그리고-죽음의-그림자","그리고-죽음의-그림자가","그리고-죽음의-그림자의","사망의-그늘을","사망의-그늘의","죽음-그림자의","죽음-의-그림자","죽음의-그늘-로","죽음의-그림이","죽음의-그림자","죽음의-그림자-를","죽음의-그림자가","죽음의-그림자니","죽음의-그림자의"]·PT["com-sombra-de-morte","da-sombra-da-morte","da-sombra-de-morte.","e-da-sombra-da-morte","e-na-sombra-da-morte","e-sombra-de-morte","e-sombra-de-morte.","por-sombra-de-morte,","sombra-de-morte","é-sombra-de-morte;"]·RU["в-тень-смертную","и-смертной-тени","и-тени-смертной","и-тень-смертная","смертной-тени","тени-смертной","тень-смертная","тень-смертную","тенью-смертной"]·ES["con-sombra-de-muerte","es-sombra-de-muerte;","la-sombra-de-muerte.","para-sombra-de-muerte","sombra-de-muerte","y-de-sombra-de-muerte","y-sombra-de-muerte","y-sombra-de-muerte,"]·SW["kivuli-cha-mauti","kwa-kivuli-cha-mauti","na-kivuli-cha-mauti","ya-kivuli-cha-mauti"]·TR["olum-golgesinin","ve-ölüm-gölgesi","ve-ölüm-gölgesinde","ve-ölüm-gölgesinden","ölüm-gölgesi","ölüm-gölgesini","ölüm-gölgesinin","ölüm-gölgesiyle"]·urd["اور-موت-کے-سائے","اور-موت-کے-سایے-سے","اور-موت-کے-سایے-میں","اور-موت-کے-سایے-کا","اور-موت-کے-سایے-کی","اور-موت-کے-ساے","موت کا سایہ","موت کے سائے کے","موت-کا-سایہ","موت-کا-سایہ ہے","موت-کے-سائے-سے","موت-کے-سائے-کی","موت-کے-سایے-میں","موت-کے-سایے-کو","موت-کے-سایے-کی"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† צַלְמָ֫וֶת n.[m.] death-shadow, deep shadow, poet. (prob. = צֵל + מָוֶת, 𝔊 (usually) σκιὰ θανάτου, cf. 𝔖 𝔙, so Thes SchwallyLeben n. d. Tode, 194, v. especially NöZAW xvii (1897), 183 ff.; Ew Br and most mod. (after older comm.) read צַלְמוּת darkness, deep darkness, cp. Arabic ظَلَمَ iv, Assyrian [ṣalâmu], Ethiopic ጸልመ be black, dark);—death-shadow, cf. ظُلْمَةٌ 6, often ‖ חֹשֶׁךְ, לַיְלָה,…