Show Notes
צ-ל-ל (ṣade–lamed–lamed) / ظ–ل–ل (ẓāʾ–lām–lām)
Shadow; be dark; be
In the Hebrew Bible: ṣel, shadow · ṣalmawet, death-shadow · ṣelel, shadow · ṣalal, be dark
In the Qurʾan: ẓill, shades · ẓalla, and they were to continue · ẓulla, coverings · ẓallal, And We shaded
Sound-law correspondence and an explicit cognate link. ḥurūf al-ʾiṭbāq, at the fāʾ: ẓāʾ gathered under ṣade.
Passages
- Job 7:2: As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,
- 1 Chronicles 29:15: For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
- 2 Kings 20:10: Hezekiah answered, “It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. Nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.”
- Mark 9:1: He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death until they see the Kingdom of God come with power.”
- Colossians 2:17: which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.
- 1 Corinthians 15:26: The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
- Sūrat Fāṭir سورة فاطر “Originator” 35:21: Nor is the shadow equal with the sun's full heat;
- Sūrat al-Mursalāt سورة المرسلات “The Emissaries” 77:41: Lo! those who kept their duty are amid shade and fountains,
- Sūrat al-Shuʿarāʾ سورة الشعراء “The Poets” 26:71: They said: We worship idols, and are ever devoted unto them.
Opening music: Touchia Ḥijāz, Thami Ben Abdelkrim, violin, with percussion (Morocco, 1920s), public domain. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / BnF, Archives de la Parole.
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