Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'shadow' occurs 85 times in the standard works.

16 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'shadow' in the standard works and contain 18.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 7 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Kgs. 20:9-11 (4 in 3 verses)

Job 24:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 10:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)


Isa. 25:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

 25:4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

 25:5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.




Isa. 30:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Jonah 4:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 9:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 65 5 70
Gen. 1 0 1
Judg. 2 0 2
2 Kgs. 4 0 4
1 Chr. 1 0 1
Job 15 0 15
Ps. 13 0 13
Eccl. 2 0 2
Song. 1 2 3
Isa. 12 1 13
Jer. 3 1 4
Lam. 1 0 1
Ezek. 4 1 5
Dan. 1 0 1
Hosea 2 0 2
Amos 1 0 1
Jonah 2 0 2
NT 8 6 14
BM 10 10 20
DC 2 1 3
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 85 22 107

Isa. 4:6
And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.

Isa. 9:2
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

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

Isa. 18:1
Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:

Isa. 25:4
For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

Isa. 25:5
Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

Isa. 30:2
That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

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

Isa. 32:2
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

Isa. 34:15
There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.

Isa. 38:8
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.

Isa. 49:2
And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;

Isa. 51:16
And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.