4639 - skia

Strong's Concordance

Original word: σκιά
Transliteration: skia
Definition (short): shadow
Definition (full): shadow

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: a prim. word
Definition: shadow
NASB Translation: shade (1), shadow (6).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Apparently a primary word; "shade" or a shadow (literally or figuratively (darkness of error or an adumbration)) -- shadow.
KJV: The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
NASB: "THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SITTING IN DARKNESS SAW A GREAT LIGHT, AND THOSE WHO WERE SITTING IN THE LAND AND SHADOW OF DEATH, UPON THEM A LIGHT DAWNED."
KJV: But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
NASB: yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and forms large branches; so that THE BIRDS OF THE AIR can NEST UNDER ITS SHADE."
KJV: To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
NASB: TO SHINE UPON THOSE WHO SIT IN DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH, To guide our feet into the way of peace."
KJV: Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
NASB: to such an extent that they even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on any one of them.
KJV: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
NASB: things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.