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|txtha=σκιᾶς, ἡ ([[see]] [[σκηνή]], at the [[beginning]])), from Homer down, the Sept. for צֵל;<br /><b class="num">a.</b> [[properly]], [[shadow]], i. e. [[shade]] caused by the interception of the [[light]]: [[σκιά]] θανάτου, [[shadow]] of [[death]] ([[like]] umbra mortis, Ovid. metam. 5,191, and umbra Erebi, Vergil Aen. 4,26; 6,404), 'the densest [[darkness]]' ([[because]] from of [[old]] [[Hades]] had been regarded as enveloped in [[thick]] [[darkness]]), tropically, the [[thick]] [[darkness]] of [[error]] (i. e. [[spiritual]] [[death]]; [[see]] [[θάνατος]], 1): צַלְמָוֶת).<br /><b class="num">b.</b> a [[shadow]], i. e. an [[image]] [[cast]] by an [[object]] and representing the [[form]] of [[that]] [[object]]: opposed to [[σῶμα]], the [[thing]] itself, a [[sketch]], [[outline]], [[adumbration]], [[εἰκών]], the '[[express]]' [[likeness]], the [[very]] [[image]], [[Cicero]], de [[off]]. 3,17, 69 nos veri juris solidam et expresssam effigiem nullam tenemus, umbra et imaginibus utimur).