Some occurrences of the word, “shade,” in the Bible. Shade
was important, sometimes even lifesaving, in Israel.
Psalm 121:5 Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on
your right hand.
Isaiah 4:6 There will be a pavilion for a shade in the
daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from
rain.
Isaiah 16:3 Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade
like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray
the fugitive!
Isaiah 25:4 For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a
stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from
the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.
Hosea 14:7 Men will dwell in his shade. They will revive
like the grain, and blossom like the vine. Their fragrance will be like the
wine of Lebanon. (This is from a prophecy about the restoration of Israel. There are more passages of this sort in the Old Testament.)
Jonah 4:5 Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the
east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the
shade, until he might see what would become of the city. 6 Yahweh God prepared
a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his
head, to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because
of the vine. (As you probably know, God next prepared a worm, which killed the
vine. Jonah was angry, but God rebuked him, pointing out that Jonah was more concerned
about the vine than about the lives of thousands of Ninevites.)
All quotations from the World English Bible. Although the word is not found in the New Testament, Revelation 7:16 says, of the Final Kingdom, They will never be hungry or thirsty any more. The sun won’t beat on them, nor any heat;
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