HebrewH6459Noun (Masculine)

פֶּ֫סֶל

pe.sel

31Occurrences
H6459Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

an idol

from H6458 (פָּסַל);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
idol, image Also means: pe.sil (*פָּסִיל *"idol" H6456)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

פֶּ֫סֶל appears 31 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Isaiah
9
Judges
8
Deuteronomy
5
Jeremiah
2
2 Chronicles
1
2 Kings
1
Exodus
1
Habakkuk
1

Key Passages

2 Chronicles 33:7BSB

Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.

Deuteronomy 5:8BSB

You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.

Isaiah 44:9BSB

All makers of idols are nothing,and the things they treasure are worthless.Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend,so they are put to shame.

Judges 17:3BSB

And when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I wholly dedicate the silver to the LORD for my son’s benefit, to make a graven image and a molten idol. Therefore I will now return it to you.”

Judges 18:30BSB

The Danites set up idols for themselves, and Jonathan son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests for the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.

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