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The concept of shades is intertwined with ancient Near Eastern beliefs about the afterlife and the spiritual realm. Old Testament References The Hebrew word often translated as "shades" is "rephaim," which appears in several Old Testament passages. In <a href="/isaiah/14-9.htm">Isaiah 14:9</a> , the prophet describes the stirring of the dead to meet the fallen king of Babylon: "Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you—all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones." Here, the "spirits of the dead" are understood as the shades, the disembodied spirits residing in Sheol. In <a href="/job/26-5.htm">Job 26:5</a> , Job speaks of the mysterious and shadowy nature of these spirits: "The dead tremble—those beneath the waters and those who dwell therein." This verse suggests that the shades exist in a state of unrest or agitation, possibly reflecting the belief that they are cut off from the fullness of life and the presence of God. Theological Implications The concept of shades in the Old Testament reflects the ancient Hebrew understanding of death and the afterlife. Unlike the Greek concept of Hades or the later Christian understanding of heaven and hell, Sheol was not a place of punishment or reward but rather a shadowy existence where the dead reside. The shades, therefore, represent a state of diminished life, lacking the vibrancy and communion with God that characterizes the living. Theologically, the existence of shades underscores the separation between the living and the dead, as well as the hope for eventual redemption and resurrection. The Old Testament hints at a future hope where God will overcome the power of Sheol and restore life to His people. This hope is more fully developed in the New Testament, where the resurrection of Jesus Christ is seen as the ultimate victory over death and the grave. Cultural Context In the broader cultural context of the ancient Near East, the concept of shades was common among various peoples, including the Canaanites and Mesopotamians. These cultures often depicted the underworld as a place inhabited by the spirits of the dead, who existed in a state of shadowy half-life. The biblical portrayal of shades shares similarities with these cultural beliefs but is distinct in its monotheistic framework and its emphasis on the sovereignty of Yahweh over life and death. New Testament Perspective While the New Testament does not explicitly use the term "shades," it builds upon the Old Testament understanding of the afterlife and the hope of resurrection. Jesus' teachings and the writings of the apostles emphasize the reality of eternal life through faith in Christ, contrasting the shadowy existence of Sheol with the promise of eternal communion with God. In passages such as <a href="/john/5-28.htm">John 5:28-29</a> , Jesus speaks of a future resurrection: "Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice and come out—those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment." In summary, the biblical concept of shades reflects an ancient understanding of the afterlife, characterized by a shadowy existence in Sheol. This concept is transformed in the New Testament through the hope of resurrection and eternal life in Christ.<a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/4209.htm">4209. porphura -- purple fish, purple dye, purple cloth</a> ... There were three familiar shades of purple in the ancient world: deep violet, deep scarlet (or crimson), and deep blue (, 2, 220). ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4209.htm - 7k<a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/7496.htm">7496. rapha -- shades, ghosts</a> ... 7495, 7496. rapha. 7497 . shades, ghosts. Transliteration: rapha Phonetic Spelling: (raw-faw') Short Definition: spirits. Word Origin ... /hebrew/7496.htm - 6k<a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><a href="/library/traherne/centuries_of_meditations/41_as_pictures_are_made.htm">As Pictures are Made Curious by Lights and Shades</a> ... THE FIRST CENTURY 41 As pictures are made curious by lights and shades. As pictures are made curious by lights and shades, which ... /.../traherne/centuries of meditations/41 as pictures are made.htm<a href="/library/cowper/translations_from_the_french_of_madame_de_la_mothe_guion/the_secrets_of_divine_love.htm">The Secrets of Divine Love are to be Kept</a> ... Friends of the pensive, who conceal,. In darkest shades, the flames I feel; ... From all intrusion and surprise. Imbowering shades and dens profound! ... /.../the secrets of divine love.htm<a href="/library/bevan/hymns_of_ter_steegen_suso_and_others/the_summer_day.htm">The Summer Day</a> ... Cant. i.7. Sweet shades and fields that glow with summer flowers,. ... That ye are fair to see. Sweet shades and fields that glow with summer flowers,. ... /.../bevan/hymns of ter steegen suso and others/the summer day.htm<a href="/library/johnson/the_new_testament_commentary_vol_iii_john/practical_observations_28.htm">Practical Observations.</a> ... two maps of the world, one showing the happiness, comforts, morality, good deeds, benevolent gifts, means of innocent enjoyment, the light shades showing the ... /.../johnson/the new testament commentary vol iii john/practical observations 28.htm<a href="/library/kleiser/talks_on_talking/a_talk_to_preachers.htm">A Talk to Preachers</a> ... To express adequately the infinite shades of spiritual truth, he must have the ability to play upon his voice as upon a great cathedral organ, from "the soft ... //christianbookshelf.org/kleiser/talks on talking/a talk to preachers.htm<a href="/library/waring/hymns_and_meditations/sunlight_of_the_heavenly_day.htm">Sunlight of the Heavenly Day,</a> ... Lead us through the entered year. Where the shades of death we see,. ... Germs of love may spring to light,. Bright 'mid earth's oppressive shades,. ... /.../waring/hymns and meditations/sunlight of the heavenly day.htm<a href="/library/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_j/a_threefold_thought_of_sin.htm">A Threefold Thought of Sin and Forgiveness</a> ... There are three clauses in my text, each substantially having the same meaning, but which yet present that substantially identical meaning with different shades ... /.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture j/a threefold thought of sin.htm<a href="/library/drummond/the_ideal_life/the_three_facts_of_sin.htm">The Three Facts of Sin</a> ... The Psalms will ever be the standard work on Sin"the most ample analysis of its nature, its effects, its shades of difference, and its cure. ... //christianbookshelf.org/drummond/the ideal life/the three facts of sin.htm<a href="/library/various/the_st_gregory_hymnal_and_catholic_choir_book/no_124_hear_thy_children.htm">Hear Thy Children, Gentle Jesus</a> ... Shades of even fast are falling, Day is fading into gloom, When the shades of death fall 'round us, Lead Thine exiled children home. Page 192-193. ... /.../the st gregory hymnal and catholic choir book/no 124 hear thy children.htm<a href="/library/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/december_the_thirteenth_the_holy.htm">December the Thirteenth the Holy and the Profane</a> ... Black merges into white through manifold shades of grey. ... Fabrics seen in the gas-light reveal quite other shades when we bring them into the light of day. ... /.../my daily meditation for the circling year/december the thirteenth the holy.htm<a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/s/shades.htm">Shades (29 Occurrences)</a> ...Shades (29 Occurrences). Matthew 4:16 The people who sat in darkness, saw great light; and to them who sat in the region and shades of death, light hath arisen. ... /s/shades.htm - 13k<a href="/topical/s/soul.htm">Soul (554 Occurrences)</a> ... sol (nephesh; psuche; Latin anima): 1. Shades of Meaning in the Old Testament: (1) Soul, like spirit, has various shades of meaning in the Old Testament, which ... /s/soul.htm - 47k<a href="/topical/g/giants.htm">Giants (18 Occurrences)</a> ... In Job 26:5 (RV, "they that are deceased;" marg., "the shades, " the "Rephaim") and Isaiah 14:9 this Hebrew word is rendered (AV) "dead." It means here "the ... /g/giants.htm - 19k<a href="/topical/s/shade.htm">Shade (67 Occurrences)</a> ... from the body; -- so called because the ancients it to be perceptible to the sight, though not to the touch; a spirit; a ghost; as, the shades of departed ... /s/shade.htm - 31k<a href="/topical/d/decease.htm">Decease (2 Occurrences)</a> ... de-ses' (rapha', plural repha'im, "ghosts," "shades," is translated by "dead," "dead body," and "deceased" in both the King James Version and the Revised ... /d/decease.htm - 13k<a href="/topical/p/peacock.htm">Peacock</a> ... The quills have thick shafts of purple and green shades, the eye at the tip of each feather from one-half to 2 inches across, of a deep peculiar blue ... /p/peacock.htm - 11k<a href="/topical/a/apocyphra.htm">Apocyphra</a> ... de-ses' (rapha', plural repha'im, "ghosts," "shades," is translated by "dead," "dead body," and "deceased" in both the King James Version and the Revised ... /a/apocyphra.htm - 12k<a href="/topical/t/taste.htm">Taste (46 Occurrences)</a> ... de-ses' (rapha', plural repha'im, "ghosts," "shades," is translated by "dead," "dead body," and "deceased" in both the King James Version and the Revised ... /t/taste.htm - 59k<a href="/topical/r/resurrection.htm">Resurrection (42 Occurrences)</a> ... But more commonly the dead are thought of as "shades," repha'im (Job 26:5 margin, etc.), weak copies of the original man in all regards (Ezekiel 32:25). ... /r/resurrection.htm - 93k<a href="/topical/l/love.htm">Love (703 Occurrences)</a> ... While the Hebrew and Greek words for "love" have various shades and intensities of meaning, they may be summed up in some such definition as this: Love ... /l/love.htm - 65k<a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/structuralism.html">What is structuralism? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/kingdom-of-God.html">What is the kingdom of God? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Jeremiah-29-11.html">What is the meaning of Jeremiah 29:11? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://clyx.com/term/shades.htm">Shades: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com</a> <a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div>Shades (29 Occurrences)<a href="/matthew/4-16.htm">Matthew 4:16</a> The people who sat in darkness, saw great light; and to them who sat in the region and shades of death, light hath arisen. (WBS)<a href="/luke/1-79.htm">Luke 1:79</a> To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shades of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. (WBS)<a href="/job/3-5.htm">Job 3:5</a> Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it. (BBE WBS)<a href="/job/7-2.htm">Job 7:2</a> As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment: (BBE)<a href="/job/10-21.htm">Job 10:21</a> Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness, and the shades of death; (WBS)<a href="/job/10-22.htm">Job 10:22</a> A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shades of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness. (WBS)<a href="/job/12-22.htm">Job 12:22</a> He revealeth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth to light the shades of death. (WBS)<a href="/job/16-16.htm">Job 16:16</a> My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids are the shades of death; (WBS)<a href="/job/24-17.htm">Job 24:17</a> For the morning is to them even as the shades of death: if one knoweth them, they are in the terrors of the shades of death. (WBS)<a href="/job/26-5.htm">Job 26:5</a> They that are deceased tremble Beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof. (See JPS BBE DBY RSV)<a href="/job/28-3.htm">Job 28:3</a> He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shades of death. (WBS)<a href="/job/38-17.htm">Job 38:17</a> Have the gates of death been opened to thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shades of death? (WBS)<a href="/job/40-21.htm">Job 40:21</a> Under shades he lieth down, In a secret place of reed and mire. (YLT)<a href="/job/40-22.htm">Job 40:22</a> Cover him do shades, 'with' their shadow, Cover him do willows of the brook. (YLT)<a href="/psalms/23-4.htm">Psalms 23:4</a> Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shades of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. (WBS)<a href="/psalms/44-19.htm">Psalms 44:19</a> Though thou hast severely broke us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shades of death. (WBS)<a href="/psalms/88-10.htm">Psalms 88:10</a> Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are decreased arise and praise thee? Selah (See JPS BBE DBY RSV)<a href="/psalms/107-10.htm">Psalms 107:10</a> Such as sit in darkness and in the shades of death, being bound in affliction and iron; (WBS)<a href="/psalms/107-14.htm">Psalms 107:14</a> He brought them out of darkness and the shades of death, and broke their bands asunder. (WBS)<a href="/proverbs/2-18.htm">Proverbs 2:18</a> For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead; (See JPS BBE RSV)<a href="/proverbs/9-18.htm">Proverbs 9:18</a> But he knoweth not that the dead are there; That her guests are in the depths of Sheol. (See JPS)<a href="/proverbs/21-16.htm">Proverbs 21:16</a> The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding Shall rest in the assembly of the dead. (See JPS BBE)<a href="/isaiah/9-2.htm">Isaiah 9:2</a> The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shades of death, upon them hath the light shined. (WBS)<a href="/isaiah/14-9.htm">Isaiah 14:9</a> Sheol from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. (See JPS BBE RSV)<a href="/isaiah/26-14.htm">Isaiah 26:14</a> They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish. (See JPS RSV)<a href="/isaiah/26-19.htm">Isaiah 26:19</a> Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead. (See JPS BBE RSV)<a href="/jeremiah/2-6.htm">Jeremiah 2:6</a> Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drouth, and of the shades of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt? (WBS)<a href="/jeremiah/6-4.htm">Jeremiah 6:4</a> Make war ready against her; up! let us go up when the sun is high. Sorrow is ours! for the day is turned and the shades of evening are stretched out. (BBE YLT)<a href="/jeremiah/13-16.htm">Jeremiah 13:16</a> Give glory to the LORD your God, before he shall cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and while ye look for light, he shall turn it into the shades of death, and make it gross darkness. (WBS)<a name="sub" id="sub"></a><div class="vheading2">Subtopics</div><a href="/topical/s/shades.htm">Shades</a><a name="rel" id="rel"></a><div class="vheading2">Related Terms</div><a href="/topical/s/stump.htm">Stump (7 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/s/shades.htm">Shades (29 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/o/outline.htm">Outline (4 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/l/lewd.htm">Lewd (37 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/l/lewdness.htm">Lewdness (68 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/f/foliage.htm">Foliage (14 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/t/thickets.htm">Thickets (14 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/r/relief.htm">Relief (32 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/b/band.htm">Band (150 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/a/accent.htm">Accent (1 Occurrence)</a><a href="/topical/s/shadowing.htm">Shadowing (3 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/s/shadow.htm">Shadow (72 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/h/hatching.htm">Hatching (1 Occurrence)</a><a href="/topical/n/names.htm">Names (133 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/e/epistles.htm">Epistles (2 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God (45911 Occurrences)</a><a href="/topical/j/john.htm">John (154 Occurrences)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/topical/s/shade_in_the_heat.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Shade in the Heat"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Shade in the Heat" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/topical/s/shading.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Shading"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Shading" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>