SPECIAL TOPIC: DEEP DARKNESS
This is the Hebrew word salmawet (BDB 853), which is translated in the KJV in Ps. 23:4 as "the valley of the shadow of death." It really means a valley of deep darkness, which may describe any and all of life's crises.
The NET Bible has a good note about this word at Jer. 2:6 (p. 1290, #6). It is used in poetic texts of
Notice the theological contrast between YHWH's word/truth as light, but sin as darkness (BDB 364, KB 361, cf. Isa. 8:22-9:2), deep darkness (BDB 853), and gloom (BDB 791).
This darkness imagery is characterized by "stumbling" (BDB 619, KB 669). A life of faith is pictured as a person walking on a clearly marked path in light. If one
judgment is the result.
SPECIAL TOPIC: THE WAY. . .THE PATH
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