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- Hebrew · calque ofצלמות
- English todayvalley of the shadow of death
From Psalm 23 of the Book of Psalms. "Shadow of death" is a calque of Hebrew צלמות.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
valley of the shadow of death
Today it means: The world, a place where darkness and death are figurative valleys one must walk through as part of the human experience. Full definition →
Hebrew צלמות