Semantyka terminu ṣalmāweṯ (cień śmierci) w Księdze Hioba

Abstract

The article is an attempt to establish the semantic scope of the Hebrew term תֶוָמְלַצ (ṣalmāweṯ) ‒ most often translated as ‘shadow of death’. Starting from the truth about the double (divine and human) authorship of the biblical text, the author of the article accepts the Bible as a complex text of culture (religious and secular). The method of contextual analysis was used in this study. It consists mainly of juxtaposing parallel forms (synonymous and antithetical) and takes into account the processes of connotation and symbolization take place in the language.