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<div> '''1: σκιά ''' (Strong'S #4639 — Noun [[Feminine]] — skia — skee'-ah ) </div> <p> is used (a) of "a shadow," caused by the interception of light, &nbsp;Mark 4:32 , &nbsp;Acts 5:15; metaphorically of the darkness and spiritual death of ignorance, &nbsp;Matthew 4:16; &nbsp;Luke 1:79; (b) of "the image" or "outline" cast by an object, &nbsp;Colossians 2:17 , of ceremonies under the Law; of the tabernacle and its appurtenances and offerings, &nbsp;Hebrews 8:5; of these as appointed under the Law, &nbsp;Hebrews 10:1 . </p> <div> '''2: ἀποσκίασμα ''' (Strong'S #644 — Noun Neuter — aposkiasma — ap-os-kee'-as-mah ) </div> <p> "a shadow," is rendered "shadow that is cast" in &nbsp;James 1:17 , RV; the AV makes no distinction between this and No. 1. The probable significance of this word is "overshadowing" or "shadowing-over" (which apo may indicate), and this with the genitive case of trope, "turning," yields the meaning "shadowing-over of mutability" implying an alternation of "shadow" and light; of this there are two alternative explanations, namely, "overshadowing" (1) not caused by mutability in God, or (2) caused by change in others, i.e., "no changes in this lower world can cast a shadow on the unchanging Fount of light" [Mayor, who further remarks, "The meaning of the passage will then be, 'God is alike incapable of change (parallage) and incapable of being changed by the action of others'"]. </p>

<p> (צֵל, ''Tsl,'' or צֵלֶל tselel; σκία '','' either simply or in composition), the privation of light by an object interposing between a luminary and the surface on which the shadow appears. The light of the sun may be obscured; but "with the Father of light there is no parallax nor tropical shadow;" no interposing bodies can change his purposes or for a moment intercept and turn aside his truth, because he is equally present everywhere (&nbsp;James 1:17). A shadow falling on a plate follows the course of the body which causes it; and, as it is often extremely rapid, the fleetness of human life is often compared to it (&nbsp;1 Chronicles 29:15; &nbsp;Job 14:2). [[Shadow]] is also used in the sense of darkness, gloom, "the shadow of death" — i.e. death-shade, a season of severe trial, heavy sorrow (Psalms 23), or depicting a state of ignorance and wretchedness (&nbsp;Matthew 4:16; &nbsp;Luke 1:79). Hackett (''Illust. Of Script.'' p. 46 sq.) thinks that David's image of the valley of death's shadow may have been suggested by such wild, dreary ravines as the [[Wady]] Aly. Shadow is also used for covering and protection from the heat for repose, where the word [[Shade]] would be preferable. The Messiah "is as the shade of a great rock in a weary land" (&nbsp;Isaiah 32:2; &nbsp;Isaiah 49:2; &nbsp;Song of Solomon 2:3; &nbsp;Psalms 17:8; &nbsp;Psalms 63:7; &nbsp;Psalms 91:1) (comp. Hackett, Illust. of Script. p. 50 sq.). Shadow is used to indicate that the Jewish economy was an adumbration, or a shadowing forth, of the things future and more perfect in the Christian dispensation (&nbsp;Hebrews 8:5; &nbsp;Hebrews 10:1; &nbsp;Colossians 2:17). On the curative power of Peter's shadow (&nbsp;Acts 5:15), see Engelschall, ''De Umbra Petri'' (Lips. 1725); Krakewitz, ''Id.'' (Rost. 1704). </p>